When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

If you're an architecture buff, take some time to check out the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, which was constructed beginning in 1869. Located a block east of the Santa Fe Plaza ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican ... friar who was a great companion of St Francis of Assisi, it was claimed. By choosing such a name ...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, on April 29 ... when they see that it pleases God — St. Francis of Assisi would say (RegNB XVI, 43) — the proclamation ...

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio. He’s the blockbuster artist ...

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ... who was a great companion to St. Francis of Assisi, the late pope’s namesake.

The funeral of Pope Francis will take place on Saturday at the Basilica of Santa Maria ... and the first to be named after St Francis of Assisi, a medieval monk who lived in poverty.

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica ... FRANCIS: Pope Francis, elected in 2013, took the name of St. Francis of Assisi ...

Jorge Bergoglio picked the name Francis as a tribute to St Francis of Assisi. Oath of secrecy ... of the new pope from the loggia of St Peter's Basilica. The current protodeacon is Cardinal ...

More of Caravaggio’s religious paintings are in chapels downtown Rome. The Conversion of Saul, an early version of which is in the exhibit, and the Crucifixion of Peter are in Santa Maria del Popolo, ...