Rev. Tuan Pham, Parochial Administrator of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Irvine, led a pilgrimage group from several South County parishes to the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, which is the final resting place of newly canonized St. Carlo Acutis. Parishioners from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. Kilian, San Francisco Solano and St. John Neumann gathered on the middle level of the three-church, three level basilica. The first stone of the basilica was laid by Pope Gregory IX in 1228, the day following his canonization of St. Francis.
—Martha Schnieders