#st. peter's basilica

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St. Peter's Basilica by sohhhaibbb.

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Vatican City 1880

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Vatican Sunset 🌇

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The popemobile carrying the casket of Pope Francis passes by the Colosseum in Rome en route to the pontiff's burial at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore following his funeral in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 26, 2025.

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Stained Glass Window above the Altar at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Photography by ConspiracyofHappiness on Flickr

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St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

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BREAKING: New stained glass has just been installed in St. Peter's Basilica

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St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City: The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. Wikipedia

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St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City: The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. Wikipedia

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St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by vtarnini

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I asked my son, raised in the Christian Church and no longer a believer what Christmas meant to him now at this point in his life [he's 40] and he said, "Gods are born every day."

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The Young Pope (2016)

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Angela Giuffrida at The Guardian:

The funeral of Pope Francis will be held on Saturday at St Peter’s Square, the Vatican said on Tuesday, as a host of world leaders and royals including Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump and the Prince of Wales confirmed their attendance. The pope, the head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, died at his home in the Vatican on Monday aged 88 after a stroke. He had been recovering from double pneumonia for which he was hospitalised for five weeks. His death certificate, released by the Vatican, said the stroke caused a coma and “irreversible” heart failure. A Vatican official recounted some of his last moments on Tuesday, saying his death came quickly and he did not suffer. Francis fell ill at about 5.30am on Monday and was attended to by his team of medics. He later fell into a coma and died at 7.35am. The funeral mass will begin at 10am local time and will be led by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the college of cardinals, in what is expected to be a solemn ceremony.

Photographs of Francis’ body, dressed in his vestments, holding a rosary and lying in an open coffin in the chapel of his home at Casa Santa Marta, were released by the Vatican on Tuesday. His coffin will be taken to St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday morning in a procession led by cardinals. He will remain there until 7pm on Friday, to allow the public to pay their respects. The basilica will remain open until midnight on Wednesday and Thursday. As confirmed by Francis in his final testament, he will be buried at the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome’s Esquilino neighbourhood, breaking with longstanding Vatican tradition. He specified that he wanted to be buried “in the ground, without particular decoration” but with the inscription of his papal name in Latin: Franciscus. The cost of his burial will be covered by a sum provided by a benefactor, which Francis transferred to the basilica, he wrote in his will.

Popes are usually buried with much fanfare in the grottoes beneath St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, but Francis – loved by many Catholics for his humility – simplified rites for papal funerals last year. [...]

Traditional papal funerals involved three coffins, one made out of cypress wood, one of lead and one of elm, which were placed one inside the other before the body was placed inside and then buried beneath St Peter’s. But Francis shunned these rituals when he approved the simplified rules in April 2024. People will still be able to see his body in the basilica, but his remains will be placed in one simple coffin made of wood and lined with zinc, and will not be raised on a platform. Francis almost died twice in February during treatment for severe pneumonia at Gemelli hospital in Rome. He was discharged on 23 March and ordered by doctors to rest for at least two months. Although his work duties were vastly scaled back, he made several appearances in recent weeks, including a visit to St Peter’s Basilica to thank the restorers finishing work on the 17th-century tomb of Pope Urban VIII. On Easter Sunday, he entered St Peter’s Square in the popemobile before giving a blessing from the central balcony of the basilica.

The funeral for the late Pope Francis will be held on Saturday at St. Peter’s Basilica. The funeral will be a lot less gaudy than other papal funerals, in respect to the late pontiff’s message of simplicity.

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St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

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Sunset upon Tiber 🌇

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First images of Pope Francis in his casket during the official ascertainment of his death by Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Farrell in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican, April 21, 2025.

Prior to his death, Pope Francis simplified the burial ceremonies traditionally held for popes. Instead of his body lying in state on an elevated platform in St. Peter's Basilica for the public viewing, Francis will be displayed in an open casket. Following his funeral on Saturday, April 26th, Francis will be buried in a simple tomb in the ground ("without particular ornamentation, and bearing only the inscription: Franciscus") at Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (Basilica of Saint Mary Major), about four kilometers outside of Vatican City. Francis will be the first Pope to be buried somewhere other than St. Peter's Basilica since Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.

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🏛️ View atop St. Peter's Basilica 🇻🇦