Oct. 4 will therefore be a public holiday in Italy starting in 2026, after having been a public holiday until 1977.

Italy’s Senate on Wednesday gave overwhelming support to a bill restoring a public holiday on October 4th in honour of Saint ...

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Italy has reinstated St. Francis of Assisi's feast day, October 4, as a national holiday, beginning next year, the 800th anniversary of his death. The decision, celebrated by Prime Minister Giorgia ...

Italy's parliament voted on Wednesday to restore a national holiday in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the country's ...

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A Senate panel on Wednesday approved re-instituting a national holiday for St Francis of Assisi, one of Italy's two national saints along with St Catherine of Siena, on his feast day of October 4, ...

A pasta-themed tradition dating back nearly a century will draw throngs Oct. 5 to the 96th Italian Spaghetti Dinner at Little ...

All creatures great and small are invited to celebrate with their owners Animals of all types, shapes and sizes are invited ...

Italy is moving to restore the 4 October holiday honouring St Francis of Assisi, with parliament backing the plan and the ...

Francis' canticle was groundbreaking in its embrace of all creation as equal to humanity. Today, it reads as a call to embrace our fragile universe and earth and all its inhabitants.