The remains of Italy's patron saint have only been seen in public once before - for one day in 1978.
Hundreds of pilgrims lined up before dawn on Sunday to be among the first to pray before the exposed relics of St. Francis in ...
Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims ...
The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s death.
There are beautiful churches in the Czech Republic, Rome, Portugal and Peru where everything inside is decorated with human bones. It seems that it was made to think of the loneliness of human life or ...
Assisi is putting the bones of St. Francis on public display for the first time, and the town is bracing for a huge crush of ...
Bone fragments found in a 1,000-year-old church in Rome Monday are believed to contain the bones of St. Peter, the first Pope and one of Jesus Christ's 12 apostles.The bones were discovered in clay ...