From the cross in the neglected field chapel of San Damiano, Francis heard Christ tell him, “Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down.”
Assisi, town, Perugia province, Umbria region, central Italy. The town lies 12 miles (19 km) east of Perugia and is famous as the birthplace of St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscan order. Assisi is situated on a spur of Monte Subasio at an elevation of 1,300 feet (400 metres) and overlooks
San Damiano cross. / Credit: damian entwistle via Flickr CC BY NC 2.0
Vatican City, Oct 5, 2023 / 11:46 am (CNA).
Making Jesus our all and proclaiming him to the world is the Church’s “greatest urgency, the truest reform,” the bishop of Assisi,.
From the cross in the neglected field chapel of San Damiano, Francis heard Christ tell him, “Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down.”
Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan orders of the Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order. He was a leader of the movement of evangelical poverty in the early 13th century and is one of the most venerated religious figures of Roman Catholicism.