Events Tagged: "basilica"

St. Sixtus III becomes forty-fourth pope - builds Santa Maria Maggiore after Ephesus

First St. Mark's Basilica built - Doge Giustiniano Participazio builds church to house St. Mark's relics, Byzantine style

Charles II begins construction of Basilica of St. Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin - becomes major pilgrimage site, houses claimed skull relic

Vierzehnheiligen vision - shepherd boy sees fourteen children who identify as Holy Helpers, basilica later built at site

Vierzehnheiligen Basilica begun by Balthasar Neumann - masterpiece of German Baroque, shrine to Fourteen Holy Helpers