ASSISI, Italy — For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced ...

Crowds Flock to Newest Catholic Saint in Assisi — a Millennial Teen Whose Ordinariness Is the Draw ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo ...

A teenager uses a smartphone to take a picture at the tomb of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo ...