After their church closed in 2024, some members of St. Clare Catholic Church in Essex are trying to save their community — ...

Approximately 35 Poor Clare Sisters from across the United States have come together on the campus of St. Bonaventure University for a 10-day assembly focusing on their life and mission in the church.

Giotto’s ‘The Legend of St. Francis’: Assisi’s Devotional Frescoes The pre-Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative ...

St Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 in Assisi, Italy, ... later known as the Poor Clares, led by St Clare of Assisi. ... in a hut near the church of the Portiuncula in Assisi.

St. Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone around 1181 or 1182 in Assisi, Italy, is a prominent figure among Catholics. He was a renowned Italian mystic and poet who renounced ...

In 1182, St. Francis was born to a wealthy family in Assisi, which rises above a fertile valley in central Italy. Praying in front of a crucifix, he is said to have heard a call to reform the church.

Pilgrims flock to pray before Carlo’s body in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the Sanctuary of the Spoliation, where it has been on public display in a glass tomb since 2022.

ASSISI, Italy - 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 (Italy) (AFP) – 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 ...

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