The Jubilee Year of Hope, observed from December 2024 through December 2025, is drawing Catholic pilgrims from around the ...

Pilgrims coming to Rome will have the opportunity to see the newly restored tomb of one of the first Catholic popes.

are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling necropolis (“city of the dead”) hidden under St. Peter’s Basilica were ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs ... Rome and is currently buried in a tunnel under the basilica dedicated to ...

ON the via Appia Antica, beyond the Aurelian walls, sits the ancient basilica of St Sebastian Outside the Walls. It is one of ...

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes (the underground crypt where many popes are buried), currently houses the remains of approximately 91 popes of Rome. This number, which is ...

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs ... not entirely dissimilar to a saint." Koudounaris estimates that ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica ... a basilica on the other side of Rome. It's the first time in more than a century that a pope will be buried ...