Rome Cemetery has numerous historical people interred in it - including a veteran of the Revolutionary War, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner and the writer of the Pledge of Allegiance. The ...

Pope Francis visited a military cemetery in Rome to pray on All Souls’ Day and offered Mass for the faithful departed. During his live-streamed visit to the French Military Cemetery on Nov. 2, the ...

Ceremonies at cemeteries across the region — part of the national Wreaths Across America observance — will take place on ...

Italian archaeologists have discovered the remains of 38 skeletons buried in a Jewish cemetery in Rome more than 500 years ago, offering further evidence of their ubiquity and persecution under papal ...

The most beautiful and solemn cemetery I have ever beheld' declared the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Since the height of the Grand Tour, non-Catholic foreigners dying in Rome have been buried in front ...

The site, with graves dating from the 14th century to the early 17th century, was uncovered during excavations carried out for the new headquarters of an insurance company. ROME (JTA) – Italian ...

ROME (RNS) — Italian archaeologists have discovered the remains of 38 skeletons buried in a Jewish cemetery in Rome more than 500 years ago, offering further evidence of their ubiquity and persecution ...

Smashed headstones lie at the Verano cemetery in Rome, Friday, May 12, 2017. Vandals have struck overnight at Rome’s main cemetery, smashing and shattering some 70 headstones and ornaments. Rome Mayor ...

ROME (RNS) Researchers say the absence of headstones was a result of decrees issued by Pope Urban VIII, who ruled in 1625 that Jews be buried in unmarked graves and ordered headstones to be removed ...