Saint Francis of Assisi's Skeleton Goes on Public Display
The skeleton of Saint Francis of Assisi is being publicly displayed for the first time, a month-long event anticipated to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors.
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St Francis of Assisi’s bones go on public display for first time
The beloved medieval friar died 800 years ago
By Nicole Winfield
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Hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for month-long display of remains of 13th-century saint Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton is going on full public display from Sunday for the first time, in a move that is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors. Inside a nitrogen-filled plexiglass case with the Latin inscription “Corpus Sancti Francisci” (the body of Saint Francis), the remains are being shown in the Italian hillside town’s Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. Continue ...
By Agence France-Presse in Assisi
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