The sanctuary is a high point of interest under many aspects. Particularly suggestive is the dawn of the sun and the rise of the moon behind this mount, which was given to Fra Francesco d'Assisi from the Count Orlando Catani in 1213 after hearing him during the speech to San Leo di Romagna. From any point of in the valley you can see the spur on the Apennine ridge. La Verna, for Casentino, is also a symbol, a geographical landmark. Then the geologists explained that this big rock was a piece of wandering Liguria, when the earth was still chaotic and not yet solidified, exactly like the neighbors Mount Simone and Simoncello. In ancient times, people couldn't explain how this beautiful place came to be, so the legend was born, that the rocky Mount Alvernia was created by a strong earthquake, with the eruption on the ridge of the mountain, that happened when Jesus died on the cross. After this miraculous event, even many years later, La Verna became a focal point of increasing pilgrimage, that brought the place to become the big religious destination loved by tourists.īut this "raw rock between Tevero and Arno" so called by Dante Alighieri (Divina Commedia, Paradiso, canto XI) is also a place of suggestive and addicting architecture, emotional art, and a beautiful natural and geological landscape that appears to be miraculous. This is because at La Verna, the Poor Man of Assisi spent there many hours of praying and penitence, and there he received the Stigmas, the 17th September 1224. So said, this Holy Mount is, after Assisi, the most famous and notorious Franciscan place, known worldwide. Now, the habits is put back again in the display case where it was stored for some time: Tuesday, Mathe wax seals were affixed to the shrine of the sanctuary of La Verna by Bishop Gualtiero Bassetti, bishop of Arezzo, in a ceremony attended by all the bishops of Tuscany.La Verna, located on the Apennine ridge connecting Casentino and Valtiberina, is first of all the focus point of Faith and devotion to Saint Francis. Francis is back on Mount La Verna, and was placed in the chapel of the relics.Ī delicate operation of clearing was made in 1985 by the 'Opificio delle Pietre Dure', the famous Florentine restoration laboratory in recent months has undergone a reconnaissance and monitoring the state of conservation: the operations were carried out on tissue from same factory. Francis himself donated to Count Albert of Barbolani Montea at Anghiari, on the occasion of a visit carried out on the morning of September 30, 1224, and now wounded, was returning to Assisi, riding a donkey.īarbolani Count held the habit in custody until January 26, 1503, when it was transferred by a stratagem, by the action of the Commissioner General of the Republic of Florence, 'Antony Tebalducci Giacomini', to the Baptistery of Florence, and then go to the convent of Mount Crosses, where he would remain until 1571, when, by order of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany now, May 6, the same year, was carried into the church of 'Ognissanti (all saints)' in Florence and placed under the main altar, here he remained until Maat 12:00 pm In fact, the same day, the habit of St. From the side, is completely shredded, of course, to get the relics. Lacking both sleeves, hood is completely detached from the rest of the dress. (San Francisco was small), instead the circle, down, is two meters and thirty centimeters. The dress is fabric hand-spun wool gray natural one meter and twenty centimeters The gray wool dress worn by the Poor on September 14 and 15, 1224, when on Mount La Verna received the holy stigmata in remembrance of the crucifixion of Jesus
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