basilica
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In San Marino, the world's oldest republic, the Chicago-born pope is to meet with local authorities before holding a prayer service in the local basilica.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The rue Lepic, the steep 1-kilometer stretch that punches up through the 18th arrondissement and leads the peloton toward the Sacré-Coeur basilica, is a more recent addition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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 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 basilica is a vast, cavernous, echoing space, with all sorts of alcoves, balconies, domes, cupolas and arches affecting its acoustics.
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
Above this catacomb are ruins of two basilicas, erected in honour of St. Zeno; and of Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus, companions of Sta.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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