The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

Pope Clement XIV is also buried in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles in Rome.

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

Churches didn't go down in there to hold ... Learn more about the Christian catacombs in Rome at their web site.

As early as 2015, Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century ...

Regoli pointed out that “the first popes up to the fifth century are buried in the catacombs or some surface ... scattered throughout the churches of Rome, and then from the end of the fifth ...