* 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.

Saint Benedict of Nursia ( c. 480 – 543 ), detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico, Saint Mark's Basilica | San Marco, Florence ( c. 1400 – 1455 ).

The Chapel of Saint Catherine with parts of her relic s in the Basilica of San Domenico in Siena

The incorruptible head and thumb were entombed in the Basilica of San Domenico, where they remain.

The Basilica San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome is the family church of the della Rovere.

), Lorenzetti, Martini and others ) in upper and lower Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

In 1013, construction began on the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte.

His design of the Piazza San Pietro in front of the Basilica is one of his most innovative and successful architectural designs.

" Fernando had Isidore's remains reinterred in the then recently constructed Basilica of San Isidoro in Leon.

Statue by Michelangelo — in Basilica San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

In 1513, Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X, of the Medici family, commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures.

Apparently not the least embarrassed by this turnabout, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

The major Florentine architectural projects by Michelangelo are the unexecuted façade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, and the Medici Chapel ( Capella Medicea ) and Laurentian Library there, and the fortifications of Florence.

The major Roman projects are St. Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Sforza Chapel ( Capella Sforza ) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli.

** Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope ( memorial feast day )

He was the son of a certain Projectus, born in Rome and a priest of the Basilica di San Clemente on the Caelian Hill.

He also prescribed that acolytes should not presume to translate the relics of martyrs and that, in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, they should not take the place of deacons in administering baptism.

This move, actually to Carpentras, the capital of the territory, was justified at the time by French apologists on grounds of security, since Rome, where the dissensions of the Roman aristocrats and their armed militia had reached a nadir and the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano had been destroyed in a fire, was unstable and dangerous.

He is known for building the new façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, beginning construction of the Trevi Fountain, and the purchase of Cardinal Alessandro Albani's collection of antiquities for the papal gallery.

The interior of San Marco, Rome | St Mark ’ s Basilica in Rome, including the Byzantine mosaics commissioned by Gregory IV

In Venice, from about 1534 until around 1600, an impressive polychoral style developed, which gave Europe some of the grandest, most sonorous music composed up until that time, with multiple choirs of singers, brass and strings in different spatial locations in the Basilica San Marco di Venezia ( see Venetian School ).

Saint Cyril's remains are interred in a shrine-chapel within the Basilica di San Clemente in Rome.

The 11th-century Basilica of San Gavino in Porto Torres, Sassari, is also dedicated to this saint.

* Basilica di San Gavino a Porto Torres

Rome Historical marker | flood marker, 1598, set into a pillar of the Santo Spirito hospital near Basilica di San Pietro

* 1253 – The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.

* The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.

Vincenzo's son and successor in 1612, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, summarily sacked Monteverdi, who went on to a more prestigious position at the Basilica of San Marco, Venice.

Massive damage was caused to many historical sites, but the major attraction, the Basilica di San Francesco, reopened less than 2 years later.

* The Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi ( St. Francis ) is a World Heritage Site.

The Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi includes a number of artistic works.

The city's as well as the national Shrine of Francis of Assisi, the city's namesake which also contains a small reproduction of the Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi, is located in a small chapel on Vallejo Street.

* Basilica of San Francesco ( 13th-14th centuries ), in Tuscan-Gothic style.

Simone's other major works include the St. Louis of Toulouse Crowning the King at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples ( 1317 ), the Saint Catherine of Alexandria Polyptych in Pisa ( 1319 ) and the Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus at the Uffizi in Florence ( 1333 ), as well as frescoes in the San Martino Chapel in the lower church of the Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 8 from Cardinal Pacelli ( whose old vestments Spellman himself wore ), with Archbishops Giuseppe Pizzardo and Francesco Borgongini Duca serving as co-consecrators, at St. Peter's Basilica.

This naturalism is also evident in the Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi in Assisi, built in the early years of the 13th century in honor of the newly canonized St. Francis.

His masterwork is a tempera fresco decoration of the lower church of Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi, where he painted a series of large panels depicting Crucifixion, Deposition from the Cross, and Entombment.

Last Supper, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Crucifixion, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Deposition of Christ from the Cross, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Stigmata of St Francis, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Madonna with St Francis and St John the Evangelist, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Image: Pietro Lorenzetti 002. jpg | Madonna dei Tramonti, c. 1330, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi, Assisi, Italy

At Rome the Litany of Loreto was introduced into the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore by Cardinal Francesco Toledo in 1597 ; and Paul V, in 1613, ordered it to be sung in that church, morning and evening, on Saturdays and on vigils and feasts of the Madonna.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 19 from Francesco Cardinal Satolli, with Archbishops Edmund Stonor and Rafael Merry del Val, at the Lateran Basilica.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 14 from Cardinal Francesco Satolli, with Cardinal Pietro Gasparri and Archbishop Enrico Grazioli serving as co-consecrators, at the Basilica of SS.

File: Assisi San Francesco BW 5. JPG | Italy, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi ( 1228-1253 ).