The Church of San Damiano would be a strong choice for the cover of a “churches of Italy” calendar. It sits at the outskirts of the little town of Assisi, perfectly framed from behind by the ...

A command came to him while praying in the crumbling little church of San Damiano, a 20-minute walk downhill from Assisi’s walls, out of the Byzantine-style crucifix overhead. It said ...

During a junior year abroad, I made a solo backpacking trek to the church at San Damiano, Italy, where Saint Francis got his call to rebuild the church. As the story goes, an image of the ...

Which brings me back to the San Damiano Cross. I was thinking of this Franciscan story in part because of the clear exhortation from Christ to "repair" or "rebuild" the church, which is precisely ...

Francis of Assisi was drawn to pray in San Damiano Church, which was collapsing. He heard the voice of God telling him three times, "Francis, go and repair my house which, as you see, is falling ...

The San Damiano Cross is painted in the Byzantine style. It’s a “rood cross” in that it’s large enough to be hung over the rood screen that separates the sanctuary from the church’s apse.

Archbishop Cordileone began his homily by remembering the words of Christ, "Francis, rebuild my house," spoken to the 13th century Italian saint from the cross inside Assisi's San Damiano church.

The founding of San Damiano College for the Trades responds ... and fidelity to Jesus Christ and his Church. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has opened a first of its kind Catholic trade ...