This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated ...

Two abstract paintings vanished from the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue recently, leaving behind empty frames and a ...

The composer Olivier Messiaen famously introduced blackbirds and nightingales into his music. It is both baffling and bewitching ...

In 1212, he helped establish a second order for women, called the Poor Ladies of San Damiano, later known as the Poor Clares, led by St Clare of Assisi. In 1224, while on retreat at Mount La Verna ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi ... dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate ...

And St. Clare — dedicated to Clare of Assisi — was one of them. The mission church was originally housed within a rented home on Giffords Lane between Katan and Dewey avenues, according to ...

British-born, Co.Clare-based artist Nicola Henley’s happiest childhood ... “I remember being at my happiest,” she recalls, “and the idea of flying—of being free—has remained really strong within me.” ...

In souvenir shops, merchants are seeing a growing interest in items bearing Carlo’s image, from statuettes, icons, rosaries to T-shirts and bath towels. The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the ...

In souvenir shops, merchants are seeing a growing interest in items bearing Carlo’s image, from statuettes, icons, rosaries to T-shirts and bath towels. The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the ...

ASSISI, Italy — Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen soon to become the first millennial saint. Carlo ...

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 ... The teen ...