For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen ...

With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to ...

ASSISI, Italy Pilgrims ... where more than 800 years ago St. Francis renounced his family’s wealth. There, they prayed by the monument where Acutis’ body is on view, wearing jeans, a ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

Italian prosecutors opened an investigation of an illegal online auction of a relic of Bl Carlo Acutis, one month before his ...

Over the past year, about 1 million pilgrims have flocked to the central Italian town of Assisi ... the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis. Acutis’ body was exhumed during the more ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi ... St. Francis renounced his family’s wealth. There, they prayed by the monument where Acutis ...

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

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The body of Carlo Acutis ... 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 ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims ... 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.