How visiting the remains of 'God's Influencer', 15, has become biggest tourist draw in Italy's tiny pilgrimage town ⊕
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Assisi, in Italy's Umbria region, is best known as a site of Christian pilgrimage - but is there more to it than that? Our writer heads to the Italian countryside to find out.
3 months ago
Bones of St Francis of Assisi go on public display for the first time - capping an 800-YEAR saga over his bodily remains ○
The Franciscan Church has decided to put the remains on display for a month, to honour the 800th anniversary of St Francis' death in 1226.
Bones of St Francis of Assisi go on public display in Italy ○
The remains of Italy's patron saint have only been seen in public once before - for one day in 1978.
Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton goes on public display for first time ○
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Hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for month-long display of remains of 13th-century saint
Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton is going on full public display from Sunday for the first time, in…
4 months ago
AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums ⊕
Tests on both versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century master
An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15…
8 months ago
Tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi to be unsealed for first time in 800 years for ancient Christian ritual ○
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The remains of Saint Francis of Assisi will be removed from his tomb and put on display for an ancient Christian ritual that started more than 1,800 years ago.
Watch: Pets around the world blessed for Feast of Saint Francis ⊕⊕
Dogs, cats and even a rooster were blessed in celebration of the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Italy set to reinstate St Francis public holiday after parliament vote ○
Italy's lower house has backed a bill to reinstate a national holiday on 4 October in honour of St Francis of Assisi, which the government of Giorgia Meloni said was important to the nation's identit…
Italy to revive national holiday in honour of patron saint, Francis of Assisi ○
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Millions of Italian workers expected to get day off every 4 October in honour of 13th-century mystic and poet
Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government in Italy has revived a national holiday in honour of…
9 months ago
Millions believe this British boy has performed miracles since his death at just 15. Today, amid dark whispers about the Catholic Church's real intentions, Carlo Acutis will be anointed a saint ○
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The legendary Francis is Assisi's biggest attraction no longer. His popularity has been surpassed by that of the new kid on the town's cobbled blocks: London-born Carlo Acutis