On Sunday, community members got access to medical and dental care at no cost during the Free One-Day Clinic in Santa Maria.

Pope Francis is breaking with tradition when it comes to where he will be laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica ...

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the centre of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes. The ...

Santa Maria has hired a finance director, the third department leader vacancy filled in recent months by the new city manager. Since arriving in late 2024, Rowlands has filled vacancies for three ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – On Wednesday, the City of Santa Maria announced that Rebecca Campbell has been hired as the new Finance Director. Campbell first day in the new position will be May 5 ...

Every time Pope Francis came back to Rome after a trip abroad, he made sure to pay a visit to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. It was a fitting choice: Francis was particularly devoted to the ...

Rebecca Campbell has been appointed finance director for the city of Santa Maria following a national search, City Manager David Rowlands has announced. Campbell’s first day in her new post will ...

But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” tomb a couple of miles away in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ...

and visually echoed in the ancient mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore — the oldest known mosaic program in the Christian church, dating back to the 420s CE. The twenty-seven surviving mosaics ...