Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and traditionally considered the first apostle to be martyred. Santiago de Compostela is the final destination of the Way of Saint James (Galician: O Camiño de Santiago). Assisi Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in Italy, hosts two more papal basilicas: the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi and the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi is the mother church of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the "Franciscan Order". Assisi is the town in which the founder of the order, Saint Francis of Assisi, was born and died. See also Catholic Church by country Catholic Church in Africa Catholic Church in Asia Catholic Church in North America Catholic Church in Latin America Catholic Church in Oceania List of Catholic dioceses in Europe References Further reading Bireley, Robert. The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (1999) Burson, Jeffrey D., and Ulrich L. Lehner. Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History (2014) Chamedes, Giuliana. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Catholic Europe (Harvard UP, 2019) CIA Factbook Gehler, Michael, and Wolfram Kaiser, eds. Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (Routledge, 2004) Kent, Peter C. and J.F. Pollard, eds. Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age (Praeger 1994), Kselman, Thomas, and Joseph A. Buttigieg, eds. European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives (Notre Dame University Press, 2003) Kosicki, Piotr H. Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891-1956 (Yale University Press, 2018) multiple online reviews Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A history of expansion of Christianity. vol 4. The great century: in Europe and the United States of America; A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914 (1941) Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, I: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase (1969) Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, IV: The Twentieth Century in Europe: The Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Churches (1958) MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2011) Misner, Paul. Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industrialization to the First World War (1991)