The late pope sent a telegram marking the 560th anniversary of the saint’s canonization in 2021 calling her “a great female ...

Enchanting cobbled streets, churches awash in frescoes, and romantic ancient spas await in this captivating hilltop town that ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful of the world ...

A single white rose was placed on the tomb that said "Franciscus" – the pope's name in Latin – inside the Santa Maria ...

Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

More than a million faithful Catholics have been flocking to St. Mary Major Church in Assisi, Italy, over the last ... font where St. Francis and St. Clare were baptized, but it is also where ...

And St. Clare — dedicated to Clare of Assisi — was one of them. The mission church was originally housed within a rented home on Giffords Lane between Katan and Dewey avenues, according to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...