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Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church's most celebrated ...

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

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

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(AP video shot by Chris Warde Jones. Production by Maria Grazia Murru) A votive statue of Italy’s patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi, left, is on display among other religious items at a shop in ...

Who was St. Francis? In 1182, Francis was born to a wealthy family in Assisi, which rises above a fertile valley in central Italy. Praying in front of a crucifix, he heard a call to reform the church.

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to this hilltop town to pray at the tomb of St ...

“There is a situation of waiting but also of hope,” he said. Dell’Orto reported from Assisi, Italy. Paolo Santalucia contributed from Rome. Associated Press writer Carla K. Johnson in ...