The family of an artist known as The Secret Painter are hoping people will help solve a mystery surrounding two of his artworks. The paintings by Eric Tucker are believed to depict China Clay Country ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small ... Giotto alone rescued painting from “an evil ...

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 ...

Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27. ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town ...