Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a ... of the medieval saint. Defined against the bourgeoisie ...

were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for their retirement home, Assisi House in Aston, by a visiting priest. Since then, the elder sisters have cherished their feathered ...

That denial of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Acutis was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career ...

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Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw “St. Francis, St. Clare, of course, important saints who marked an epoch – but that’s far ...

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ASSISI, Italy (AP ... Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27.