United States Army

Soldiers, families build connections with ODR trips

From the hilly streets of Assisi to the historic Basilica of St. Francis, U.S. Army Garrison Italy community members are ...
Catholic Standard

St. Francis’s relics returned to crypt after monthlong veneration draws 370,000 pilgrims

Bells rang out over the hilltop town of Assisi on the night of March 22 as Franciscan friars closed the monthlong public ...
GMA Network

Pinoy pilgrims flock to Assisi, Italy for display of Saint Francis' relics

A rare and deeply moving event drew thousands of faithful from across the globe to the hill town of Assisi, including ...
Yahoo

Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo ...
Yahoo

Photos from Assisi as the bones of St. Francis go on display

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims will have yet another reason to visit the hilltop Umbrian town of Assisi, as the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and ...
AOL

You can now see the bones of St. Francis of Assisi for the first time ever

Fans of St. Francis of Assisi are going to be able to view the saint in a whole new way after the man's remains were exhumed from their resting place 800 years after he was laid to rest. The bones ...
Newsday

The bones of St. Francis are going on public display, a mixed blessing for Assisi

ASSISI, Italy — The bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, are going on public display for the first time, giving his ...