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San Damiano is a church with a monastery near Assisi, Italy. Built in the 12th century, it was the first monastery of the Order of Saint Clare, where Saint...

1241, a pair of Saracen armies attacked the monastery of San Damiano and the town of Assisi. Both targets were successfully defended as Clare prayed to...

Lombardy Other San Damiano, Assisi, a church and monastery in the Italian region of Umbria associated with Saints Clare and Francis The San Damiano cross, a...

The San Damiano Cross is the large Romanesque rood cross before which St. Francis of Assisi was praying when he is said to have received the commission...

mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the forsaken country chapel of San Damiano, just outside Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis...

Assisi (/əˈsiːsi/, also US: /-iːzi, əˈsɪsi, -ɪzi/, Italian: [asˈsiːzi]; from Latin: Asisium; Central Italian: Ascesi) is a town and comune of Italy in...

establish a monastery of Poor Clares of the Primitive Observance from San Damiano in Assisi. After the reluctance on the part of many bishops to accept them...

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (Spanish: Catedral basílica de San Francisco de Asís), commonly known as Saint Francis Cathedral, is...

a St Francis receiving the stigmata (1507) for the cloister of San Damiano at Assisi. In 1537, records note that along with Sinibaldo Ibi, he praised...

Assisi and Saint Agnes of Assisi, who both entered religious life. After her husband's death, the widow Ortolana joined The Monastery of San Damiano....

eucharist, she deters the Saracen looters assaulting the monastery of San Damiano, Assisi. The church organ was constructed by Carlo Traeri in 1687. In 2014...

mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the wayside chapel of San Damiano, about two miles outside of Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified came alive and...

Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi and the nuns of the Church of San Damiano, Assisi. The spiritual care of the monastery was entrusted by Francis to...

Agnes of Assisi (1197 or 1198 – 16 November 1253) was one of the first abbesses of the Order of Poor Ladies (now the Poor Clares). She also planted additional...

which were also of importance to St Francis of Assisi – Greccio, Gubbio, Bonaventure, Perugia, San Damiano, Orvieto, Cortona, La Verna, Chiara, Sostegno...

Santi Cosma e Damiano, Alcamo, a church and convent in Alcamo, Trapani, Sicily, Italy, also called Chiesa di Santa Chiara St. Clare of Assisi, founder of...

Saint Clare of Assisi (1194—1253). According to the Vatican, Saint Clare was picked because during her final illness in San Damiano, Assisi, "she saw and...

roof, and has a 19th-century copy of the venerated Crucifix of San Damiano di Assisi. Tradition holds that this church once held the original, but that...

beginning of 1461 and was interred under the floor of the convent of San Damiano, Assisi where he spent the latter part of his life. Even before he died he...

ruins of the chapel of San Damiano, where he hears God's voice asking him to "restore my church." Believing that God means San Damiano, Francesco begins to...