Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

Pope Francis’ body lies in state at St. Peter’s Basilica before his funeral as mourners gather to pay respects to the late ...

The feast celebrates a vision of the Virgin Mary to a peasant, Saint Juan Diego, in Tepeyac, a hilltop in Mexico City in 1531. During the visitation, the apparition expressed "her maternal love ...