Revd. Philip Ball, a Church of England vicar for Airmyn, Hook, and Rawcliffe, plans to wear simple sackcloth robes with a hood to be as authentic as possible. In a further attempt to get into ...

“During the first month, he must go on every feast day to divine worship in the cathedral, clad in the sackcloth robe of a penitent, and with a halter round his neck; and in this guise, he must listen ...

In a coarse sackcloth robe worn over a hairshirt, she sits alone in her stone-floored cell. Her food is bread, water, an occasional cooked vegetable. Through a small grilled window she may look ...

But among the stone streets and bell towers, the image of a smiling boy in a red polo shirt has joined the portraits of Francis in his sackcloth robe. Pilgrims flock to pray before Carlo’s body in the ...

But among the stone streets and bell towers, the image of a smiling boy in a red polo shirt has joined the portraits of Francis in his sackcloth robe. Pilgrims flock to pray before Carlo’s body in the ...

Assisi: Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen soon to become the first millennial saint.

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