Pope Francis was buried inside his favourite church in Rome, the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, the Vatican announced on Saturday. The 88-year-old Argentinian pontiff, who passed away on Monday, was ...

The hearse carrying the coffin of late Pope Francis arrived at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Stefano Costantino / AFP) The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica ...

But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” tomb a couple of miles away in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ...

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 ...

A 78-year-old Santa Maria man has been named as the motorcyclist who died last week in a Santa Maria crash with an agricultural bus. At 11:15 a.m. April 16, emergency crews responded to the scene ...

Every time Pope Francis came back to Rome after a trip abroad, he made sure to pay a visit to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. It was a fitting choice: Francis was particularly devoted to the ...

He also asked that his “last earthly journey” end at the “very ancient Marian shrine,” of Santa Maria Maggiore, or St. Mary Major, in Rome. With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran ...

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 ...

Williams comes from the Oxnard Police Department, where he most recently served as Assistant Chief and led the Field Services Bureau. Williams’ first day will be Monday, April 28. He succeeds ...