ENCOUNTERS – POPE FRANCIS AND THE INFIORATORI OF SPELLO

Benedetta Tintillini

by Benedetta Tintillini

Miracles are to be recognized in the unexpected joys that happens every day.
I have the honor , for about a year , to be a Infioratore of Spello (card 740 ) , which fills me with pride and that allowed me , today , to be full of pain in the whole body but also of great happiness .
The President of the Association, and dear friend , Guglielmo Sorci , gave me one of the most intense ( and exhausting ) days of all my life , giving me the opportunity to participate in the realization of the Infiorata on the occasion of the visit of Pope Francis in Assisi.
Each of us Infioratori came home with a wealth of memories and feelings that I do not think we will be able to forget .
The uniqueness of the Pope’s visit to Assisi is known, but the chorus of people to attend the event in Spello is amazing.

The Cypress of St. Francis, 800 years old but it does not show , perfectly cloned in several specimens that will be donated to the Sacro Convento of Assisi

An imaginative legend, collected in the “Istoria Serafica” in the seventeenth century , says:
“…. One day to Brother Francis , who was passing tired along the ridges of the Apennines , the robe was caught on a little branch; he picked it up , and to took it

The Infiorate of Spello. Umbria

“PILGRIM AND NEW APOSTLE. ST. FRANCIS ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO”

Assisi, Palazzo Bonacquisti – August 22nd/October 20th , 2013

Promoted by the Xunta de Galicia, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Assisi, the Ordo Fratrum Minorum, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia and the Centro Italiano di Studi Compostellani di Perugia, on August 22nd, the exhibition Pellegrino and new Apostle will be inaugurated in

THE SHRINE OF MADONNA DEI BAGNI

A PRECIOUS JEWEL, HIDDEN IN THE HEART OF ITALY celebrated 350 years of life

Father Antonio Santantoni a.santantoni @ tin.it

photo and English version by Benedetta Tintillini

Millions of people have seen it (or glimpsed) passing by, but few, very few know about it. Thousands of people read its name every day, passing quickly on the large E 45 highway, from Rome to Venice and Ravenna, but only few stop, yielding to an impulse of curiosity. The name raises some amazement – Madonna dei Bagni means Our Lady of the Bath – but then everyone can think that it should be one