Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

What this place is

• Church — Santa Maria Maggiore — "largest Catholic Marian church in Rome"

Who is recorded here

• Paula of Rome burial · AD 406

In art

• The Foundation of Santa Maria Maggiore — Masolino da Panicale (1423)
• Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore — Hans Holbein the Elder (1499)
• The Miracle of the Snow — Jacopo Zucchi (1580)
• The Patrician's Dream — Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1664)
• Santa Maria Maggiore seen from the Gardens — Penry Williams (1827)

About the place

The Papal Basilica of Saint Mary the Great, also informally known as the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, is a Roman Catholic Papal Basilica and one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. The largest Marian church in Rome, it is regarded as the first Marian sanctuary and the mother of all Marian shrines.

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