Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi - Cloisters
On the guided tour of Assisi.
Our guide took us down Via San Francesco, before entering Chiesa inferiore di San Francesco. After that he would take us up to Chiesa superiore di San Francesco. But we were not allowed to take photos inside.
Was mostly frescos of St Francis's life and other religious paintings.
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi
The basilica of San Francesco is located in Assisi, in Umbria and has been the place that has kept and guarded the mortal remains of the seraphic saint since 1230 .
Wanted by Pope Gregory IX as specialis ecclesia , it was awarded by the Pope himself the title of Caput et Mater of the Order of Minors and contextually entrusted in perpetuity to the same friars . It is part of the non-extraterritorial properties of the Holy See, therefore it does not enjoy diplomatic immunity . In the complex history that marked the evolution of the Order, the basilica (and the adjoining Sacred Convent ) was always looked after by the so-called "friars of the community", the group that later went on to form the Order of Friars Minor Conventual .
In the sepulchral church of the Basilica where the altar was erected over the tomb of the Saint, on 19 November 1585 , the Franciscan Pope Sixtus V established the Archconfraternity of the Cordigeri with the bull Supernae dispositionis . In 1754 Benedict XIV elevated it to the dignity of Patriarchal Basilica (since 2006 " Papal Basilica ") and Papal Chapel. In 2000 , together with other Franciscan sites in the surrounding area, the basilica was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List . It is an Italian national monument .
On 15 July 1228 , just two years after his death, Francis was proclaimed a saint by Pope Gregory IX ; the day after, the same pope and friar Elia da Cortona , until the year before the vicar general of the Order of minors , laid the first stone of the imposing basilica , as agreed the year before. It was soon clear that the new temple would be a specialis ecclesia , i.e. both the sanctuary housing the remains of the saint and the mother church of the Order.
Cloisters
Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi - Cloisters
On the guided tour of Assisi.
Our guide took us down Via San Francesco, before entering Chiesa inferiore di San Francesco. After that he would take us up to Chiesa superiore di San Francesco. But we were not allowed to take photos inside.
Was mostly frescos of St Francis's life and other religious paintings.
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi
The basilica of San Francesco is located in Assisi, in Umbria and has been the place that has kept and guarded the mortal remains of the seraphic saint since 1230 .
Wanted by Pope Gregory IX as specialis ecclesia , it was awarded by the Pope himself the title of Caput et Mater of the Order of Minors and contextually entrusted in perpetuity to the same friars . It is part of the non-extraterritorial properties of the Holy See, therefore it does not enjoy diplomatic immunity . In the complex history that marked the evolution of the Order, the basilica (and the adjoining Sacred Convent ) was always looked after by the so-called "friars of the community", the group that later went on to form the Order of Friars Minor Conventual .
In the sepulchral church of the Basilica where the altar was erected over the tomb of the Saint, on 19 November 1585 , the Franciscan Pope Sixtus V established the Archconfraternity of the Cordigeri with the bull Supernae dispositionis . In 1754 Benedict XIV elevated it to the dignity of Patriarchal Basilica (since 2006 " Papal Basilica ") and Papal Chapel. In 2000 , together with other Franciscan sites in the surrounding area, the basilica was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List . It is an Italian national monument .
On 15 July 1228 , just two years after his death, Francis was proclaimed a saint by Pope Gregory IX ; the day after, the same pope and friar Elia da Cortona , until the year before the vicar general of the Order of minors , laid the first stone of the imposing basilica , as agreed the year before. It was soon clear that the new temple would be a specialis ecclesia , i.e. both the sanctuary housing the remains of the saint and the mother church of the Order.
Cloisters