For the first time, the body of St. Francis of Assisi will be on public display from February 22 to March 22, 2026. This historic and religious event was announced on October 4, the feast day of the saint, and will coincide with the eighth centenary of St. Francis’s death in 1226.

The announcement came from the Loggia delle Benedizioni by Fray Giulio Cesareo, director of the press office of the Sacred Convent, following Mass in the Upper Basilica of Assisi. The Mass was presided over by Monsignor Camillo Cibotti, president of the Episcopal Conference of Abruzzo and Molise, alongside Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, papal legate for the papal basilicas of Assisi, the bishop of Assisi, and representatives of the Franciscan orders.

In his homily, Monsignor Cibotti highlighted the “newness o

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