Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim ...

Over the last year, more than a million pilgrims paid homage to Acutis, according to Rev. Domenico Sorrentino.

That denial of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Acutis was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career ...

Faithful leave the the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore after visiting the tomb of ... a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Acutis was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the ...

Assisi, the medieval ... Maggiore), the very spot where St. Francis renounced his worldly possessions centuries ago. Inside, they prayed at Carlo’s tomb, where his body, clad in jeans, a ...