Traveling incognito through the Arkansas Territory, former Tennessee governor Sam Houston landed in Little Rock on May 8, ...

The body of Pope Francis was transferred on Wednesday to St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will lie in state for public viewing until his funeral on Saturday. Thousands of mourners lined up outside for a ...

(WWLP) – Western Massachusetts residents paid their respects to Pope Francis at an honorary mass ... dozens gathered for a mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral to honor, remember, and pray for ...

(“You’re naughty!”). Every day, he used to say, he prayed the words of St. Thomas More: “Lord, give me a sense of humor.” Francis took what he did seriously. But he never took himself ...

VATICAN CITY — More than 250,000 people paid their last respects to Pope Francis over three days of ... was sealed ahead of his state funeral in St. Peter’s Square and burial in a basilica ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — From nuns in black-and-white habits to suited dignitaries and ordinary faithful in baseball caps, a multitude gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’ funeral on ...

Pope Francis' casket was sealed in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday, April 26 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying in state at the Vatican. About 250,000 people filed through St. Peter ...

It is also located near the altar dedicated to St. Francis. Work to receive Pope Francis’ coffin began a few days ago, fulfilling the pontiff’s wish for a simple burial in this church ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest in a private burial at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on Saturday after a funeral Mass attended by a multitude of mourners, including some 50 heads of state ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major, close to the most important icon of Mary, the Salus Populi Romani. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After the pomp of his funeral in St. Peter ...

Vatican says Rome braces as foreign leaders arrive for Saturday's funeral Francis 'humanised the church', cardinal says VATICAN CITY, April 25 (Reuters) - More than 100,000 mourners filed into St ...