The relics (skeleton) of St Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, have opened for public viewing for the first time, 800 years after his ...
Today more than ever we need teachers and catechists who can bring people to a new encounter with the living God who reveals ...
By Christopher Wells Around 18,000 pilgrims and visitors from around the world filed passed the mortal remains of St Francis ...
The bones of the beloved saint were unveiled for public display Feb. 22 in the Lower Church of the Basilica of St. Francis of ...
The parish, simply known as “Talpa” to most parishioners, held a week of prayer that kicked off Tuesday, Feb. 24, with a Mass for peace and veneration of the martyrs’ relics, temporarily gifted to the ...
As with much late-medieval faith, things were complex and there clearly was a hunger for a relationship with Christ, even if ...
Hundreds of pilgrims lined up before dawn on Sunday to be among the first to pray before the exposed relics of St. Francis in his basilica in Assisi, Italy.
Hundreds of pilgrims lined up before dawn Feb. 22 to be among the first to pray before the exposed relics of St. Francis in ...
For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around ...
For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around ...
February is St Matthias’s Day. Matthias is known as “the 13th apostle”, but who was he and what do we know about him? This is ...
A man has shared riveting testimony about what an ancient papyrus, referred to as the Jesus Fragments, taught him about ...