Each year on Oct. 3, followers of St. Francis mark the globally popular saint’s journey from life to death through special community commemorations of the Transitus.
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(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Oct. 4 at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! The Gospel …
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Each year on Oct. 3, the followers of St. Francis of Assisi — friars; nuns; laypeople — mark the saint’s journey from life to death, his “Transitus” as it is …
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A new pilgrimage route, the Camino de San Francisco — inspired by the historic mission trails of California, and coinciding with the Jubilee Year of St. Francis — has been …
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(OSV News) — In Assisi, one of the main pilgrim draws is a tiny church dwarfed by its expansive surroundings, the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels near Assisi, …
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Pope Leo XIV shared this prayer to St. Francis with Franciscan leaders in early 2026.
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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 …
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For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration.
