October 4th: Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Patron of Italy

A beautiful ceramics sign of a souvenir store in Assisi by famous artists Amerigo Lunghi and Serafino Volpi
 (Grazia Factory, 1923). 

Saint Francis of Assisi is celebrated every year in Assisi and in all the churches dedicated to this Saint on October 4th, the day he died in Assisi in 1226, exactly in the place where the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli is located, one of the sites where Saint Francis lived and prayed.

It is in the Church of the Portiuncola, inside the more recent Basilica, that Saint Francis in 1216 received the gift of the Indulgence for all the faithful, the so-called "Perdono di Assisi" which takes place on August 2nd every year and is the second by relevance after the indulgence of the Holy Land. By visiting the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on August 2nd and by following a path of prayers all sins will be cleared.

Saint Francis was proclaimed Saint Patron of Italy together with Saint Catherine of Siena by Pope Pius XII in 1939.

Many wishes to everybody by the name of Francesca, Francesco, Franco, Franca, Frances, François, Françoise, Franziska, Fransiscus, Paco, Paca, Paquita for their name-day!

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Original Posts by Roberta Niccacci -

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