For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, ...

The current basilica is actually the second St. Peter’s. The first Saint Peter’s Basilica ... it has plenty of space to display priceless paintings, sculpture, architectural elements, and ...

At over 23,000 square feet, St. Peter’s Basilica is home to ... a place “where statues, mosaics, paintings and inscriptions were displayed as relics of the venerated and lost church.” ...

The use of Persian carpets in papal funeral proceedings may seem like a surprising choice—that is, to those unaware of the ...

Appearing publicly in street clothes for the first time as pontiff, Pope Francis went into St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and greet the faithful. transcript “What’s your name?” ...

Tombstone of the last members of the House of Stuart, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican (1819), Work of Antonio Canova (1757–1822). Credit: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

On his way back to St. Peter's Basilica from where he had emerged, Francis blessed a rosary and offered candy to a boy who greeted him. The Argentinian pope is entering his fourth week of ...

The pope, 88, arrived at the basilica to pray and greet visitors. Pope Francis made a short and unannounced visit Saturday to St. Peter's Basilica to pray before this evening's Easter vigil and ...