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As every year, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be held from Monday 18 to Monday 25 January. This year it is inspired by the exhortation of Jesus in the Gospel of John: "Remain in my love: you will produce much fruit" (Jn 15, 5-9). Organized by the Diocese of Assisi - Nocera Umbra - Gualdo ...
Read moreAs friars of the Sacred Convent we have the enormous privilege of safeguarding the Basilica where the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi lie in rest. Many artists were called here to honour St. Francis with their skilled work. This is how this Basilica and Convent, decorated and enhanced by the ...
Read moreThe Fraternal Economy exhibition, set up in the Cortile Sisto IV of the Sacro Convento, will run until summer 2021. So it is still possible to visit the precious itinerary on the contribution of the thought and concrete practices of Franciscanism in the economic sphere.
Read moreCalled for by Pope Gregory IX with the Bull "Recolentes" of April 29, 1228, the Basilica was meant to be a "specialis ecclesia", and has guarded ...
Discover The Basilica of Saint FrancisThe tomb of St. Francis, a destination every year for millions of pilgrims from all over the world, is a simple stone sarcophagus enclosed within ...
Discover Tomb of Saint FrancisConstruction of the Lower Church of the Basilica of Saint Francis was started in 1228 and completed by May 25, 1230, at which time the body of ...
Discover Lower ChurchThe construction of the upper church of the Papal Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi was completed in 1253 during the Pontificate of Pope Innocent ...
Discover Upper ChurchConsecrated with the papal Basilica by Innocent IV in 1253, the 'Sacro Convento' (Sacred Convent) is characterized by a complex and difficult-to-document ...
Discover Sacred Convent (internationally known as the Sacro Convento)Inside the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis in Assisi can be found the following: - the 'Library of the Sacro Convento': an ecclesiastical ...
Discover Library and ArchivesThe collection of the 'Treasure of the Basilica' was started in 1230, with the first precious gifts received on the occasion of the solemn 'translation' ...
Discover Museum of TreasuresThe mortal remains of Saint Francis of Assisi rest in this 800 year-old Basilica, together with the remains of his first companions. This holy place, together with the other churches here, make Assisi a true and special city-sanctuary.
1181 - 1182: Francis is born to Pietro Bernadone and Lady 'Pica'. At the time of his birth his father is on a business trip in France. At ...
Read moreAlthough he lived centuries before the Protestant Reformation and the painful rifts that marked the Church with the wars of religion that followed, ...
Read moreOn the vault of the Upper Basilica one can admire the Deisis by Jacopo Torriti, which takes up and enriches typical iconography of the Byzantine ...
Read moreUntil summer 2021, in the Cortile Sisto IV of the Sacro Convento, it's still possible to visit the exhibition "Fraternal ...
On Tuesday 19th, at 6.30 pm, in the Lower Church of the Basilica a prayer meeting will be dedicated to "Mature internally" ...
“Together for St. Francis”, the project that intends to create a network to safeguard and promote the Lower Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, launched by the Foundation for the Basilica of San Francesco, the non-profit foundation that supports the religious and cultural heritage of the architectural complex of Assisi and LoveItaly, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring a future for Italy’s cultural heritage, established by LVenture Group.
The project aims to network and mobilize the entire community in order to be able to carry out, by a crowdfunding campaign, the urgent conservation work of the west wing of the Giotto vault above the altar of the lower church of the Basilica, in particular the central part of the "vela" where is frescoed the figure of St. Francis in the glory of heaven.
The brochure showing the conservation actions used on the vault of the presbytery in the lower Basilica can be viewed online. As part of the ...
The second edition of "Percorsi Assisi" is underway, a training school, intended primarily for university students, that seeks to offer a guidebook ...
