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Via Settevalli 320 - 06129 - Perugia | infoconsorziofrancescosways@gmail.com +39 370 1106929
This tiny church was built in 1926 by the Compagnia dei Cavalieri on the site where the village of Satriano once stood. According to the Franciscan Sources, when the citizens of Assisi heard that Saint Francis was dying, they sent a delegation of knights to form a solemn procession, transporting the saint back to the town of his birth. The procession carrying Francis stopped along the return route at Satriano. Hungry, they sought sustenance, but could find no food to buy. Francis told them, “’If you have found nothing, it is because you have put more faith in gold than in God. Return to those homes which you have just visited, and humbly beg for alms, offering only the love of God as payment. And do not consider this as shameful or humiliating.’ The knights put aside their pride to gladly beg for that which could not be exchanged for gold, but only for God’s love. The poor citizens, moved and inspired by God, generously offered their food and their hearts. Thus, Francis’ poverty satisfied a need where gold could not.” (FF 665).
To commemorate this journey, each year in September a large group of horsemen (and women) retrace the route taken by the dying saint from Nocera to Assisi.
Source: “La via di Francesco” – Edizioni San Paolo S.r.l.
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