Crowds gathered on Sept, 17 in the Casentino Valley in Italy for the 800th anniversary celebration of St. Francis of Assisi ...

Franciscans around the world commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata on Sept. 17, ...

In the second of two articles, Michael Hahn marks 800 years since St Francis’s receiving the stigmata, with an exploration of ...

Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” ...

The date: Sept. 20, 1918. The place: Our Lady of Grace Chapel, the church of the Capuchin friars at San Giovanni Rotondo, located in the Italian province of Foggia. There alone in front of a ...

When these wounds began to bleed on Good Friday and on two subsequent Fridays, few doubted that they were actually the stigmata.* Three months ago Maria announced that she would die on the night ...

The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears and stigmata that erupted on ...

APART from his preaching to the birds, one of the best-known elements of the life and legend of St Francis of Assisi was his being granted the five wounds of Christ, which remained on his body.

A poor friar, Pio was believed to have had the stigmata, or bleeding wounds of Jesus’ crucifixion ... but were considered ...

Overlooking Tuscany’s Casentino Valley in Italy, Father Massimo Fusarelli, minister general of the Franciscan Friars Minor ...