Crowds Flock to Newest Catholic Saint in Assisi — a Millennial Teen Whose Ordinariness Is the Draw ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate ...

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 Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...