basilica

The pope is scheduled to preside over Mass from that basilica on April 22, the last full day of his trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Framed by white roses on the central balcony of the Vatican's basilica, the pope called on "those who have the power to unleash wars" to choose peace.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

Severus sponsored public building projects throughout the empire: Many of the most impressive surviving Roman remains—not least the Severan forum and basilica in his home city of Leptis Magna—date from his reign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

"The basilica will not be lit up like a stadium," Cesareo said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

But what you cannot do in the basilica is speak or sing quickly: it would come out as gobbledegook.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The major basilicas have a particular connection to the Pope.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025

Rupnik’s mosaics decorate churches and basilicas around the world, including at the Catholic shrine in Lourdes, France, the forthcoming cathedral in Aparecida, Brazil, and the Redemptoris Mater chapel of the Apostolic Palace.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Rupnik is one of the most celebrated religious artists in the Catholic Church, whose mosaics decorate churches and basilicas around the world, including at the Vatican.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

With their crystalline mosaics and thin, pure light, these humbly elegant basilicas conjure the time when a strange, fervent, unyielding new cult rose from the ashes of empire.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

In the civil basilicas the apse was screened off by columns, and constituted the court of justice.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various