The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s ...

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time in the Italian town of Assisi, where locals ...

St Francis of Assisi’s skeleton has been publicly displayed in Italy 800 years after his death, drawing huge crowds.

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 ...

Saint Francis of Assisi, an important figure in the Roman Catholic Church, was born into a life of wealth and luxury but traded that for a life of poverty. The exchange was made after he reportedly ...

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.

By Christopher Wells Around 18,000 pilgrims and visitors from around the world filed passed the mortal remains of St Francis ...

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 Italy's patron saint have only been seen in public once before - for one day in 1978.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for month-long display of 13th-century saint’s remains ...

Nearly 400,000 people have reserved spots to view the saint's remains.

Pilgrims will have yet another reason to visit the hilltop Umbrian town of Assisi, as the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who ...