Mass held in quake-hit basilica

Assisi - Worshippers returned to the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi yesterday exactly a month after it was devastated by an…

Assisi - Worshippers returned to the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi yesterday exactly a month after it was devastated by an earthquake, attending Mass in the chapel holding St Francis's body.

Four people died in the basilica during the second of two earthquakes on September 26th. Six other people died that day in other towns hit by the tremors.

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