Shortly after New Year's 1917, the Jesuits took formal possession of St. Mary's Hall, the second building constructed on Boston College's Chestnut Hill Campus. The north end of the building contains ...

In St. Mary Major's Sistine chapel, where the nativity scene is located, one can also see the first tabernacle to be made according to the precepts of the Council of Trent and an altar dedicated ...

There are about 400 graves on the chapel grounds, including 60 to 70 inside the chapel, above, which Historic St. Mary’s City Maryland Heritage Scholar Henry Miller said was the largest cemetery ...

In his autobiography, “Hope,” published earlier this year, Pope Francis made it clear that his burial place upon his death would be St. Mary Major Basilica. “The Vatican is the home of my ...