Day 2

So after we get to the hotel, we are going to try and get to the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. The Assisi website has a link to it

http://www.assisionline.com/assisi__161.html p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli

The website says it is the 7th largest Church in the world. It also contains the Porziuncola, which we have heard a lot about over the summer with all the talk on the restoration project. I don’t know if restoration is the right word. Building project perhaps. Here is a website just for the Porziuncola and Basilica. http://www.porziuncola.org/english/english.htm

I figure this is a good time to start diving into the lives of the saints we will encounter. Just from the start, there are a lot of saints that we will cross paths with. When a saint comes up in the things we look at I will give a link to the Saint of the Day website that Matthew has linked at epiphanylifeteen.com. These give the story of the saints life and a short little recording of the basics about the saint. If I find better materials, I will link them, but this should work for now. So, we won’t do St. Francis first, but St. Clare.

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1104

As you can see, the Porziuncola is where she received her habit. This will be our first place to visit and this will probably be repeated a lot, but really try to wrap your head around the fact that we are standing in the exact spot that these things happened hundreds of years ago. It looks like from the hotel the Basilica is about 5-6 blocks away. Head straight down the Viale Patrono D’Italia and it will be right there on your left. It is marked on the map that I linked to for the hotel. That is a lot of information so I will stop there. We will be going back to the Basilica on Day 4, so if I find any other links, we will go through them that day.

Just FYI. Wikipedia probably isn’t the most reliable source I could use, but one thing I do like about it is the links that they have. Not only can it connect you to other articles, but the art, and there is an overwhelming amount of art in the places we are going to see, all the pictures are linked. You can read about the artist, see descriptions, when things were made, and just get a feel for the age and talent of these artists.

MILK