On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, his body will be displayed ...
About 350,000 people have registered to venerate the relics of St. Francis of Assisi — the first public display of the bodily ...
The relics of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved saints in history, will be put on display in Italy next year. Vatican News, the official outlet of the Vatican, reported the news on Oct. 4 ...
It has been argued that the Italian Renaissance was “ignited by a single spark in the form of one man”, said Harry Seymour on Air Mail: Saint Francis of Assisi. Born into wealth in Umbria around 1181, ...
In times of reflection, when Francis of Assisi asked himself what would be the most important qualities for his followers to have, he would focus on one or another of the brothers who were already by ...
Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim fervour. The focus of this burgeoning devotion? Carlo Acutis, a millennial ...
The long record of the short life of St. Francis of Assisi is full of his physical ailments. But not until lately did any doctor of medicine have the interest, ambition, leisure and opportunity to ...
The chicken coop is located about 300 feet from Lubavitcher World Headquarters in Brooklyn. It’s part of The Crown Heights Homestead, which, according to Google Maps, is “permanently closed,” Don’t ...
Closed and archived in history, the Jubilee of Hope, the Vatican has once again proposed the pious practice of plenary indulgences, linking them to the eighth centenary of the death of ...