Sanctuary of La Verna, the project of a new place of prayer and recollection in the forest for the 800th anniversary of San Francesco

In 1224, on a rocky outcrop near where the Sanctuary of La Verna stands today, in the Arezzo area, Saint Francis of Assisi received the stigmata, the five wounds of the crucified Jesus. On the occasion of the eighth centenary of that event, the community of the Friars Minor of the Sanctuary and the Study … Read more