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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP ... dedicated to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis. Acutis’ body was exhumed during the more-than-decade-long canonization process and ...

ASSISI, Italy — With the upcoming canonization ... to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis. Acutis’ body was exhumed during the more-than-decade-long canonization ...

Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday, the first time the leader of the Catholic Church has been seen in ...

His body was later transferred to an Assisi cemetery as Acutis had asked, because of his devotion to the hometown medieval saint, St. Francis. His road to sainthood – the canonisation process ...