Pilgrimage to Assisi

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Why a Pilgrimage … in Italy


Saint Francis and Saint Anthony, the Seraphic Founder and the 
Learned Apostle (meo episcopus) of the Franciscan Order, are two 
great "figures" who have stirred the perpetual engine of humble 
and simple spirituality, a perpetual source for all people who 
are suffering from an existential aridity. 


Thanks to these suppositions, the wish to offer a Pilgrimage was 
born aimed at fulfilling the new spiritual requirement. 
Differently from the past, it is a research of "movement" where 
the pilgrim wants to explore in primis original experiences just 
to open himself to the compassion of that Love "that moves the 
sun and the other stars".


Apparently the purpose of the pilgrim is to walk to Assisi, but 
in reality "he advances towards himself" to join the Divine 
within. The Pilgrimage to Assisi is not a recognised pilgrimage 
as you might suppose, but it is the fusion of many other short 
traditional pilgrimages, that already existed in the local sphere 
(See: Assisi, La Verna, Casella, Cerbaiolo, Montecasale, 
Montepaolo). These ways are linked to peculiar devotions and, 
lived in this spiritual dimension again, will give a new surge to 
the interior research, renewing the essence of Francisco’s 
doctrine. So it should be, not only the stones to testify to the 
stranger His Teaching, but also the renewal of the original 
Franciscan fraternity along the pilgrimage and in the community 
of Assisi itself. 

The town of Assisi will be raised as a "Landmark of Universal 
Reference" for all men of goodwill, overcoming in this way any 
distinction of Culture and Belief in syntony with the Fundamental 
Principles of every True Religion.



Giordano
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