The coffin was placed beneath Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s towering 1624 baldachin, near the high altar—just a few feet above the traditional site of the Apostle Peter’s tomb, uncovered during ...

Will Levis's draft day stumble in 2023 led to unexpected fame for his then-girlfriend, Gia Duddy. Cameras captured her reactions as Levis's draft stock fell. Gia quickly gained followers and ...

Francis rests near St. Jerome and Bernini Besides Pope Francis, seven other pontiffs, various saints, and famous figures are buried in this church. Some have special connections to the late pope ...

The great baroque architect Bernini designed the square in the 17th century so perfectly that visitors are barely aware of the myriad problems he was solving. There was a preexisting fountain in ...

St. Mary Major also houses the tombs of artist Gian Bernini and his father Pietro, who had a workshop behind the Pauline Chapel at the basilica. Gian Bernini designed the colonnade in St. Peter's ...

Pope Francis’s funeral took the shape of a mass pilgrimage and unofficial global summit, as the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square filled to bursting with pilgrims, presidents and refugees.

The eyes of the world are centred on Rome Outside, under the warm April sunshine, groups of joyous African pilgrims in flashy head wraps ate gelato by the Bernini fountain, seagulls circling overhead.

such as the architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who designed St Peter's Square and its surrounding columns. Built around 432 under Pope Sixtus III, the basilica holds some of the Catholic ...

A beam of sunshine is lighting up an imposing statue, created by the genius of Bernini and now looking down upon the Pope. I can see Francis's hands crossed on his chest. His coffin is large ...

He represented what the church needs to be, what Jesus wanted to teach us." Francis's coffin was placed before St Peter's Altar of the Confession, where Bernini's bronze baldacchino soars up towards ...

For all Bocelli’s dates in Manchester, London and Dublin, the Italian tenor will be joined by conductor Carlo Bernini, pop guest Pia Toscano, soprano Mariam Battistelli, flutist Andrea Griminelli, ...