Treat The Portiuncula With Reverence And Devotion

Altar inside the Portiuncula Chapel at
the Franciscan University of Steubenville,
which we pray we will be able to duplicate at
the Portiuncula Hermitage in Jerusalem, Ohio

And so that the memory of the Portiuncula would remain engraved in the hearts of the brothers, he wished, as his death was drawing near, to have it written down in his testament that the brothers should do likewise. In fact, when he was near death, he said before the minister general and the other brothers:

"I wish to make arrangements regarding the friary of the Portiuncula and leave them as a testament to my brothers that this place will always be treated by them with great reverence and devotion."

Saint Francis of Assisi
Legend of Perugia - 9

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