Pope Francis will mark Christmas Eve on Tuesday with a special ceremony launching Jubilee 2025, a year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome. And traditions have evolved since the first such event back in 1300,

The rite of opening the Holy Doors of the main basilicas of Rome to inaugurate the 2025 Jubilee Year is perhaps one of the most solemn events of the Catholic Church.

During the first days of the 2025 Jubilee, all attention will understandably be focused on the opening of the Holy Doors in the papal basilicas of Rome. Only opened during the various jubilees, there are several churches in Italy and around the world that have a Holy Door,