Retired attorney and preservationist Tony Gelderman has restored several historic buildings over the past 30 years. His ...

Antonia Salzano wasn't particularly religious until she saw faith through her son. Others can follow his example, she said ...

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 ...

The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the links between Carlo, Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi - one of the first followers of Francis - said he hoped the canonisation would attract a “new ...

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 ...