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This hermitage is a deeply spiritual place, and a just reward for the tough climb from the Valnerina. The lucus (literally “clearing in the woods where sunlight passes”) was a sacred grove for the Romans and, in the 5th century, a community of hermits fleeing from Syria settled in this forest of holm oaks and hundreds of other species of flora.
Though not noted in the Sources, the story that in 1218 the Benedictine monks granted Saint Francis the Chapel of Santa Caterina – the oldest part of the convent – is certainly true. Inside the complex, the original tiny, rough monks’ cells are a moving and telling testimony of the virtue of Franciscan poverty. The saints Anthony of Padua and Bernardine of Siena also stayed here.
Source: “La via di Francesco” – Edizioni San Paolo S.r.l.
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