In September 1224, Friar Francis of Assisi, together with his trusted brother Leo, retired to Mount La Verna to spend a period of prayer and penance.

Pope Francis has granted a Plenary Indulgence

All the celebration times in the Basilica from 24 March to the Octave of Easter

The great participation of devotees in the procession that has been marking, for the past 760 years, the discovery of St Anthony’s Incorrupt tongue is taking place again

The 6:00pm Holy Mass with the Imposition of the Ashes will be celebrated on Wednesday 14 February. This Mass will be streamed live.

In memory of Venerable Father Cortese, a friar of the Basilica of St. Anthony, who saved hundreds of people from the fury of Nazi persecution