FILE: A view of the Cathedral of St. Mary in San Francisco.

Two Catholic relics have left Italy for the first time in 800 years to go on display in San Francisco. The relics, which are associated with St. Francis of Assisi, are free to view for the next month and a half at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.

Amid a 40-day fast in 1224, St. Francis was praying on La Verna, a mountain in Tuscany. While praying, he received a vision from an angel and then experienced stigmata, or spontaneous injuries on the body in the........

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