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Assisi is a town and commune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.
It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born around 50–45 BC. It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Order of Friars Minor in that town in 1208, and of St. Clare of Assisi (Chiara d'Offreducci), who, with St. Francis, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. The 19th-century St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was also born in Assisi.
Through our desire to see and touch the risen Christ once again, we are privileged to encounter certain individuals among us who are farther along in their paths toward wholeness, in whom we see much, much more clearly the image of God in Christ. . . . So our penchant for telling stories of those people in whom Christ was born, lived, and died again, this perennial hagiographic impulse of Christianity, so to speak, is inevitably part and parcel of our faith in a risen, incarnate God.
-Robert H. Hopcke and Paul A. Schwartz, Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi: A New Translation (Boston: New Seeds, 2006), xiv–xv.
Assisi is a town and commune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.
It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born around 50–45 BC. It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Order of Friars Minor in that town in 1208, and of St. Clare of Assisi (Chiara d'Offreducci), who, with St. Francis, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. The 19th-century St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was also born in Assisi.
Una vista panoramica di Assisi, la città in cui nacquero, vissero e morirono san Francesco, patrono d'Italia, e santa Chiara.
Fotocomposizione di tre immagini.
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A panoramic view of Assisi, the town where they were born, lived and died in St. Francis, patron saint of Italy and St. Clare.
Photo composition of three images.
Assisi è una località di collina dell'Umbria, in Italia centrale. È il luogo di nascita di San Francesco (1181-1226), uno dei santi patroni d'Italia. La basilica di San Francesco è un'imponente chiesa su 2 livelli consacrata nel 1253. Gli affreschi duecenteschi che ritraggono la vita di San Francesco sono stati attribuiti, tra gli altri, anche a Giotto e Cimabue. La cripta ospita il sarcofago in pietra del santo.
Assisi is a hill town in Umbria, in central Italy. It is the birthplace of St. Francis (1181-1226), one of the patron saints of Italy. The Basilica of San Francesco is an imposing 2-level church consecrated in 1253. The 13th-century frescoes depicting the life of Saint Francis have been attributed, among others, to Giotto and Cimabue. The crypt houses the stone sarcophagus of the saint.