17. St. Francis received the stigmata at La Verna, where the Franciscans maintain a shrine today, just nine months after he created the first Nativity scene at Greccio. The Franciscans celebrated ...

For us all, St. Francis shows us by his acceptance of the stigmata that being a Christian involves pain, sometimes of the ...

Some eight centuries after St. Francis of Assisi composed "Creatures of the Canticle," the manuscript is making its first ...

but also St. Francis of Assisi and others. Crowds gathered in the beloved saint’s hometown to celebrate his life, his rule, and the Nativity scene in Greccio.

This year we celebrate the memory of the Stigmata and the Canticle of Brother Sun; the year 2026 is the centenary of the death of St. Francis.

Catholics know St. Francis is the patron saint of animals. So many of our parishes have a blessing of pets on or near his ...

On a recent Monday afternoon at St. Francis College, students buried in their phones and laptops couldn’t help but get distracted by a procession making its way through the school's corridors.

Fire crews found flames on the second floor of the St. Francis of Assisi school at 112 Saxer Ave. in Springfield on Monday ...

(OSV News) -- Throughout 2024, Franciscans around the world commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata on Sept. 17, 1224, the appearance of the bodily wounds ...

A massive fire ravaged and destroyed a local Catholic school in Delaware County causing the school to close for Tuesday. A large gathering of the parish community watched for hours as crews worked to ...

IRONTON -- The 433-mile trip home is long, in more ways than one. St. Francis of Hamburg, New York, came in heralded as a powerful high school football team that would be tough for Ironton to ...

On Monday (Sept 16), AsiaOne had the opportunity to take a look inside his room at the St Francis Xavier Retreat Centre, amid preparations for Chancery archival of items used in the trip.