The Poor Clares have been part of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville since 1986, when they branched out from a monastery in ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the Catholic Church’s newest saint.

St. Francis’ tomb is situated at the hilltop town on Assisi in Italy, where the saint was born ... dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate St. Francis.

But the monastery has electricity ... The Order of St. Clare was founded in 1212 in Assisi, Italy, by St. Clare of Assisi, a young woman who had heard St. Francis preach faith and “evangelistic ...

St Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 in Assisi, Italy, to a wealthy cloth merchant ... later known as the Poor Clares, led by St Clare of Assisi. In 1224, while on retreat at Mount La Verna ...

ASSISI, Italy — Assisi has long been a place of ... The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the links between Carlo, Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi — one of the first followers of Francis ...

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

He spent holidays in the family's second home in Assisi, and eventually died in Monza, northern Italy. His family was ... Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi -- one of the first followers of Francis ...

Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27. ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town ...