St. Francis of Assisi, also known as "Father Francis," was an Italian religious figure and mystic from the 12th and 13th centuries, revered as the patron saint of animals and ecology. His life was ...

That left the Red Flash and their completely bonkers mascot as the only school capable of making it to the Big Dance and representing the patron saint of animals. The remaining St. Francis in ...

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

Assisi, the medieval Italian town ... offers a relatable path to holiness. "St. Francis, St. Clare, of course, important saints who marked an epoch – but that’s far removed from today ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — 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 ...

St. Francis of Assisi, also known as "Father Francis," was an Italian religious figure and mystic from the 12th and 13th centuries, revered as the patron saint of animals and ecology. His life was ...