Assisi, Italy, Feb 22, 2026 (AFP) - St Francis relics go on public show for first time in Italy

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Saint Francis of Assisi's skeleton is going on public display from Sunday for the first time for the 800th anniversary of his death, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors. Inside a nitrogen-filled plexiglass case with the Latin inscription "Corpus Sancti Francisci" (The Body of St Francis), the remains are being shown in the Italian hill town's Basilica of St Francis of Assisi. St Francis, who died on October 3, 1226, founded the Franciscan o......

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