Italy's parliament voted on Wednesday to restore a national holiday in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the country's patron saints, almost half a century after it was abolished. The annual ...

Italy’s Senate Constitutional Affairs Committee, deliberating in session Wednesday, Oct. 1, approved a bill reinstating Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of Italy, as a ...

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

The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Italy’s Parliament, voted to pass the bill on Sept. 23, with 247 votes in favor of the proposal and two against.

Italy has moved closer to reinstating a national holiday in honour of patron saint Francis of Assisi, after its lower house overwhelmingly backed an initiative that cast the move as critical to the ...

Statue of St Francis of Assisi, Italy’s patron saint. Credit : Bikenbark, Shutterstock Italy could soon see October 4 reinstated as a national holiday in honour of St Francis of Assisi, after the ...

LITTLE ITALY -- A pasta-themed tradition dating back nearly a century will draw throngs Sunday to the 96th Italian Spaghetti Dinner at Little Italy's St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Visitors ...

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, ...

Carlos Acutis has been called “God’s influencer,” “The Sneaker Saint,” and the “first millennial saint,” among other things. But in this context, his most significant title is “Patron Saint of the ...

Italy's lower house has backed a bill to reinstate a national holiday on 4 October in honour of St Francis of Assisi, which the government of Giorgia Meloni said was important to the nation's identity ...

Italy's parliament has voted to reinstate a national holiday on October 4 in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, marking the 800th anniversary of the revered saint's death. The move comes nearly fifty ...