The remains of St Francis of Assisi, one of the Catholic Church's best-known saints, went on public display on Sunday for the first time in almost eight centuries, an event expected to draw hundreds ...

St Francis of Assisi’s skeleton has been publicly displayed in Italy 800 years after his death, drawing huge crowds.

The remains of Italy's patron saint have only been seen in public once before - for one day in 1978.

The bones of Italy’s patron saint will be shown to the public for a month, to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi went on public display for the first time Sunday, capping an 800-year saga over his bodily ...

Nearly 400,000 people pre-registered to see the bones of St. Francis of Assisi in the hilltop town in Italy's Umbria. The remains of Italy's patron saint date back to the 13th century.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are flocking to Assisi this year to honor one of the world’s most beloved saints – Il Poverello d’ Assisi, the Little Poor Man of Assisi. It’s been 800 years since St ...

ASSISI, Italy 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 Acutis, the ...

In line with ongoing efforts to highlight Jordan’s religious heritage and promote religious tourism, the exhibition “Jordan: Dawn of Christianity” was inaugurated in the Italian city of Assisi on ...