Alverna
Alverna (also: La Verna) is a rocky elevation on the slope of Monte Penna (1289 m) in the central Apennines in the political municipality of Chiusi della Verna ( Tuscany ), near Caprese , the birthplace of Michelangelo .
history
On May 8, 1213, Count Orlando di Chiusi gave the Alverna to St. Francis . The mountain became a preferred place of prayer for them. According to tradition, on September 17, 1224, the saint saw a seraph there , whereupon the wounds of Christ appeared on his body . The Franciscan Orders celebrate the Feast of the Stigmatization of St. Francis on September 17th. This event is still celebrated as a special festival by the Franciscan family on September 17th every year.
On October 3, 1259, St. Bonaventure made a pilgrimage to Alverna and then wrote his influential work Itinerarium mentis in Deum .
"The area can hardly have looked any different in the time of St. Francis of Assisi, who went to a lonely, birch-crowned rocky peak of Monte Penna, near La Verna, and there made a niche between two boulders into a hermitage."
Sanctuary of La Verna above the village of Chiusi
Summit cross
Basilica of the sanctuary, also called “Chiesa Maggiore”
The stigmatization of St. Francis on La Verna, fresco by Giotto di Bondone
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agathe Lukassek: The Pope does not come as a tourist. Catholic International Press Agency , May 3, 2012, archived from the original January 15, 2013 ; accessed on February 11, 2018 .
- ^ Polyglot: APA GUIDE Tuscany .
Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′ 26 " N , 11 ° 55 ′ 51" E