Through his imitation of Christ, Francis also shared in the Lord’s sufferings. He miraculously received Christ’s wounds, the stigmata, on his flesh in September 1224. His health collapsed over the ...

The Feast Day of St Francis, the patron saint of animals, is an important day for the annual blessing of pets at the Friary Ruby O’Leary with Piglet at the Blessing of the Animals on St Francis ...

The feast day of St Francis Xavier is being celebrated today in Goa, southern India, with a special Mass at the Bom Jesus Basilica. Since 1782, the Basilica in the city which St Francis evangelised, ...