Throngs of the faithful made their way to the 16th century basilica's main altar where Francis' open ... bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by bishops, ushers, priests and nuns.

Throngs of ordinary faithful made their way slowly to the 16th-century basilica's main altar, where Francis' simple ... bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by small groups of purple ...

Photography by by Marco Furio Magliani The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has created two major new works for the altar of a 16th-century church ... too—that the cross shaped glowing heat lamp ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de ... Morales’ Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1565), recently acquired and thoroughly restored by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, is no less ...