Influential Dutch studio MVRDV has been chosen to radically renovate a disused church. The former place of worship is being ...

MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have won a competition to transform St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, the Netherlands, into ...

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and wandered the hills barefoot.But today, many arrive in search of a different model ...

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

If you're an architecture buff ... also remind visitors that the church is active and to be respectful of services. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and its gift shop are open ...

What was once a "forgotten" church next to his ... of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Carlo was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato ...

Crowds Flock to Newest Catholic Saint in Assisi ... a somber church, also known as Santa Maria Maggiore, marking the spot where more than 800 years ago St. Francis renounced his family ...

leader of the St. Francis Assisi parish, which now encompasses St. Peter. The church retained Glastonbury-based Redfern Engineering to study the building, and it concluded an April 4 ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP ... and a sweatshirt — lies in a shrine in a church dedicated to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis. Acutis’ body was exhumed during ...

Over the past year, about 1 million pilgrims have flocked to the central Italian town of Assisi ... in a church dedicated to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis.