Sentence examples for main basilica from inspiring English sources

He is however, one of two men buried in the main basilica.

Pope Francis began his first morning as pontiff by praying at Rome's main basilica as he started the first day of what is expected to be a challenging papacy.

After noting that Saint Scholastica's brother had a statue in the middle of the piazza as well as the main basilica, I asked Federico, "Anything that honors his sister?" "There is a church dedicated to her in the cemetery outside the city walls," he replied.

Santa Maria Maggiore is a fourth-century church and the only one of the main basilicas that has mostly retained its original form.

Pope John Paul has broadened the process for earning an indulgence (a visit to the Rome airport chapel counts, and so does quitting smoking for a day), but traditionalists will still visit at least one of Rome's four main basilicas.

They can be earned in any of Rome's main basilicas (and even the chapel at the Rome airport) as well as cathedrals and churches around the world throughout the Jubilee Year.

Mr. Zwilling said it was "merely coincidental" that the cardinal met with the pope on the first day of a special four-day Holy Year event dedicated to the sick, which opened with a Mass at one of the main basilicas of Rome, St. Paul Outside the Walls.

The Plaza de la Paz is home to the city's main church, the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato.

Two of the main ones are the Basilica of San Vitale and the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, but by bike you can also organize a route going to many other noteworthy monuments.

Vatican archaeologists in 2002 began excavating the eight-foot coffin, which dates from at least 390 and was buried under the basilica's main altar.

We pause to watch the artists on Place du Tertre then wind our way to the basilica's main plaza to take in the impressive vista.