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Assisi: Of Prayerful Holy Teens and Heroic Catholics

The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi rises high above Assisi, Italy, and is the burial place of Blessed Carlo Acutis (top left) and where Catholic cyclist Gino Bartali (bottom left) helped with local efforts to save all the Jewish inhabitants of the Umbrian city during World War II.

Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino shares the faithful legacy of young Blessed Carlo Acutis, who is buried in the hometown of St. Francis, and those who saved Jews in the Umbrian city during World War II.