The service has in past years been held at the grand Basilica of St.
Francis began the day by praying at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome.
Catholic Charities kicked-off the SFSP at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan Del Valle on May 24.
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Kennedy's family chose Boston's Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as the Mission Church, for his funeral Mass on Saturday.
In 1903 the artist visited Ravenna, in Italy, where he was struck by the sixth-century Byzantine mosaic interior of the basilica of San Vitale.
World-renowned soprano Lucia Aliberti will perform arias by Vivaldi, Mozart, Puccini and more at the Basilica of the Holy Apostles on Easter Sunday at 8:30 pm.
Pilgrims at Mexico City's Basilica of Guadalupe said they were thrilled.
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In 1997, an earthquake killed 10 people in the Umbria region, left tens of thousands homeless and seriously damaged monuments and artwork, including the town of Assisi's famed Basilica of St.
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Your next stop is the breathtaking Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Cappella Strozzi section, in particular, which is decorated with Divine Comedy themed frescoes by Nardo di Cione.
The twin spires of Basilica of St Anne de Beaupre loom over the low-rise fast-food joints, motels and banks that litter the road leading to this, one of North America's main sites of pilgrimage.
He stole the four bronze horses from the basilica of San Marco, destroyed the boat-building capacity of the Arsenale, and demolished a church in Piazza San Marco to build a memorial to himself.
Exactly one week after Stan Musial had closed his eyes for the final time and peacefully concluded his exemplary life that spanned over nine decades, thousands gathered to pay their final respects at both Busch Stadium and the Cathedral Basilica of St.
They are especially annoyed by the dropping of the plan for a new metro line, because it is now unclear how those enormous crowds will cross the centre of the city from the basilica of St Peter to that of St John Lateran.
For more than six centuries, the brilliantly frescoed walls of Florence's Basilica of Santa Croce functioned as what its current rector, Father Antonio Di Marcantonio, calls "medieval PowerPoint": scenes from the Bible and saints' lives illustrating the sermons that Franciscan friars preached to largely illiterate congregations.
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As you exit the park, this photo was our first taste of the basilica.
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"I'm coming in July, " Francis said in remarks after Mass from the esplanade of the basilica.
Later in the evening, cardinals were driven away from the basilica in a collection of small buses.
After cruising through the crowd, he arrived at the Basilica for a series of precursory ceremonies before the Mass begins.
Staff from the town's botanical garden transform the piazza in front of the Basilica di San Frediano into a garden, with a different theme each year.
But while many ornately dressed pontiffs in centuries past arrived in a fancy horse-drawn carriage, Francis rolled into a side entrance of the basilica complex in an open-topped white jeep.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the crypt of the Basilica di San Carlo al Corso in Rome has been turned into a night club to lure young people back to the Catholic church.
On Wednesday night, Pope Francis endeared himself to the crowds in St Peter's Square - and underlined his reputation for humility - when he asked them to bless him before blessing them in return from the balcony of the basilica.
But on the day of his historic resignation - in the shadow of St Peter's Basilica - it was hard to find anybody speaking badly of him.
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Inside, the Basilica is packed with statues of popes, saints and cherubs peering out from every surface.
President Barack Obama is expected to address a funeral Mass for Mr Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston on Saturday, before his burial that evening.
At Ranakpur, I was enthralled by the way the temple embraces its visitors with a variety of intimate and inviting environments, in contrast to the focused authority of the Western basilica.
On the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, on 19 April 2005, he said that he came 'as a humble servant in the vineyard of the Lord'.
Benedict, 84, arrived in Cuba's southeastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Monday, later heading to the city's Basilica del Cobre where he prayed in front of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, a wooden statue considered to be the shrine of the island's patron saint.
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Sabina Church, where it is traditionally held, to the Basilica to accommodate the larger crowd of worshipers, Vatican officials said.
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