SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A ceremony was held Monday morning to celebrate the official renaming of the Santa Maria Post Office in honor of former mayor Larry Lavagnino. With family, friends ...

Santa Maria has hired a finance director, the third department leader vacancy filled in recent months by the new city manager. Since arriving in late 2024, Rowlands has filled vacancies for three ...

Rebecca Campbell has been appointed finance director for the city of Santa Maria following a national search, City Manager David Rowlands has announced. Campbell’s first day in her new post will ...

ROME, Italy - The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the center of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-Pope Francis expresses his desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in 2023. As reported by Al Jazeera on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, the basilica is located in the ...

"He wanted to have his wishes available in case God called him home." Pope Francis selected the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore as his final resting place. "It has some significance for his ...

After his funeral, which will be held in the coming days, Pope Francis will be laid to rest at Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major), a church to which he had a “very strong connection.” ...

Francis asked to be buried at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where seven other popes are interred — and not within St. Peter’s Basilica or the Vatican Grottoes ...

Francis said he wanted his resting place to be the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, or St. Mary Major, one of his preferred places to pray. He will join several other popes there. Francis even ...

Pic: AP Following the service, "the coffin of the Roman Pontiff will then be taken to St Peter's Basilica and from there to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for burial," a Vatican spokesperson ...

While many popes are buried under St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Francis will not continue that trend. In December, Pope Francis said he wanted to be buried in the Rome basilica of St ...

Francis had already announced he would be buried in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. In his will, he said he wanted a simple, unadorned tomb "with the only inscription: Franciscus ...