The late Pope Francis left ... People of God. Was St. John Eudes not the first to celebrate the liturgical worship of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary? Was St. John Mary Vianney not the priest who ...

Consequently, as with St. Mary Major, Pope Francis raised the prominence of St. John Lateran in an important way. Beginning around 2019, he began signing official documents as “given at the ...

Following the Mass, Francis' coffin was transferred via a much-watched procession to the basilica of St. Mary Major for a private burial, making him the first pope in more than a century not to be ...

But Pope Francis rose at dawn the following day and asked to be driven to St. Mary Major, a basilica in ... The people chose to have the gospel of St. John read at his funeral mass.