basilica

In Barcelona, the basilica, funded by donations and now, more amply, by tourist dollars, has become a metaphor for dilatoriness and delay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Tourists from around the world are now flooding back, boosting the coffers of the basilica, which relies on the takings as well as private donations.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

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

It is one of Rome's four major basilicas and one of the oldest in the city.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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

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 bordering Umbria, thousands more were damaged when small churches and large basilicas crumbled.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022

Rō′mist.—Roman architecture, a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, &c.—baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, &c.;

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various