A special Mass at the cathedral in downtown Santa Fe commemorates 175 years for the diocese and 150 years as an archdiocese.

The Arcade outside the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, after the onset of the coronavirus (all photos by Debra Brehmer for Hyperallergic) ASSISI, Italy — The Basilica of Saint Francis is ...

Assisi's famous Basilica of St. Francis consists of two churches stacked on top of each other. Both are pilgrimage sites for followers of the saint, who died in 1226, and art enthusiasts entranced by ...

VATICAN CITY — On the feast of St. Francis on Tuesday, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi offered Mass in Assisi in the basilica that holds the 13th-century saint’s tomb. “St. Francis helps us not to run from ...

Fourteenth-century frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi have been damaged by over-ambitious restorations, Italian daily La Repubblica reports. Experts claim the frescoes have been ...

The beloved Italian saint was honored as the Rule of St. Francis and the creation of the Nativity scene in Greccio were commemorated. The faithful gather to celebrate the feast of St. Francis of ...

When it’s completed, it’s a magical present for the audience.” ...

While Assisi was largely sheltered from a major coronavirus outbreak during Italy's lockdown, ten Franciscan friars and eight novices at the landmark pilgrimage destination tested positive this week ...

ROME - A smirking horned devil exists in the frescoed clouds of a Giotto work in the famed Assisi basilica, an Italian art historian said Tuesday — a tantalizing detail that apparently went unnoticed ...

Experts are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help reassemble a priceless fresco by the early Renaissance artist Cimabue ...