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 ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been ... marking the spot 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, ...

Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, is a teen whose ordinariness is the draw ASSISI ... where more than 800 years ago ...

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

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, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP ... 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 sweatshirt ...

(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 ...