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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

The beloved Italian saint was honored as the Rule of St. Francis and the creation of the Nativity scene in Greccio were commemorated. The faithful gather to celebrate the feast of St. Francis of ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, ...

Saint Francis of Assisi, an important figure in the Roman Catholic Church, was born into a life of wealth and luxury but traded that for a life of poverty. The exchange was made after he reportedly ...