Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton goes on public display for first time

Hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for month-long display of 13th-century saint's remains

Saint Francis of Assisi's skeleton is going on full public display from Sunday for the first time, in a move that is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Inside a nitrogen-filled case with the Latin inscription Corpus Sancti Francisci" (the body of Saint Francis), the remains are being shown in the Italian hillside town's Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.