Together
with the camaldolese, that franciscan is the
most alive presence in the spiritual history
of this earth: it is testimony of this the romitoris,
the chapels and the convents that have been
built in various epoches, both for a rooted
religious sensibility, and for inspiration of
the saint in Assisi. The memory of the Saint
is made visible by the itinerary that from Assisi
it conducts to the Verna passing through the
Valley of the Tevere.
In
proximity of Sansepolcro, on the tall hill that
supports him to the dorsal appenninica, in a
place surrounded from woods and where the Convent
of Montecasale would have risen, then Francis
left indelible trace of itself together with
the memory of some of the stories narrated in
the famous Fioretti.
In
proximity of Pieve S. Stefano thera is another
fortress of memory carducciana, Cerbaiolo, center
of a hermitage founded by the Benedictines in
722 and then become Franciscan romitorio beginning
from 1216: destroyed during the last world war,
it has recently returned to the life thanks
to the work of a religious that has made him/it
becoming place of cohabitation and prayer.
The
Verna is a mountain that from far "it has
the aspect of a ship launched to the conquest
of the sky". The place was given to Francis,
in 1213, from the count Orlando Catani, gentleman
of Chiusi.
September 14 th 1224 here the saint received
the stimmates and in 1216 it erected you the
church of the Angels. The most greater church
was initiated from the Worm-holed ones in 1348,
while the chapel of the Stimmates was built
in 1263 and subsequently decorated from splendid
terrecotte of the Of the Robbia.
