Mike DeNunzio wants to meet at "the shrine." You know where that is, don't you, Debra?

Well, no, actually. I have no idea which North Beach shrine he means.

It turns out that DeNunzio wants to meet at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, in a church built in 1849 at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Vallejo Street. In the back of the church, there is a relic of St. Francis.

DeNunzio is excited that a replica of St. Francis' porziuncola in Assisi (a tiny ...

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