Keeping Silence At The Portiuncula

Left to Right: Brother Francis Mary Michael and Fra Giles Mary Christopher

Saint Francis said to the Lesser Brothers concerning the Portiuncula; "Let them do as the old brothers did. This is already a holy place; they preserved its holiness by praying there continually night and day and by observing silence there constantly. And if they sometimes spoke after the time determined for the beginning of silence it was always to converse about God and the salvation of souls with much uplifting fervor"...

Saint Francis of Assisi
Legend of Perugia - 9

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