Rivo Torto near Assisi, Italy
Blessed Francis betook himself with the rest of his brothers to a place near Assisi called Rivo Torto. In that place there was a certain abandoned hovel in a shelter of which these most ardent despisers of great and beautiful homes lived; and there they kept themselves safe from the rains. For, as a certain saint once said, "From a hovel one ascends more quickly to heaven than in a palace."
Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
Chapter XVI
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