basilica
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Visitors from around the world are drawn to the scale and strangeness of the basilica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
The pope also announced that he would return to the basilica on 11 April to lead a prayer vigil for peace.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
The skull was also damaged when the body was moved into the basilica in the 13th century.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
St Mark’s basilica revealed to Monteverdi a new world of possibility; as far as I know, this is the only example in Western music of a building changing the course of history.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Pope Francis, who was appointed in 2013, will be laid to rest in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of Rome's four major basilicas.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
His mosaics decorate churches and basilicas around the world, including at the Vatican.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 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 bordering Umbria, thousands more were damaged when small churches and large basilicas crumbled.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022
Suddenly the deep notes of St. Peter's great bell boomed out, tolling 'pro pontifice agonizzante,' and at that signal Exposition began in all the patriarchal basilicas, with special prayers.
From Pope Pius the Tenth by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
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