Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, is the most recent pope to be buried at St. Mary Major, having been laid to rest there ...

Even in the last years of his life, despite significant health problems, Pope Francis was seen in a wheelchair praying in ...

Also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour ... to its rediscovery in an oratory of the Augustinian Fathers at Santa Maria in Posterula. Pope Pius IX, who as a boy had prayed before the picture ...