Saint Francis experienced his vision in the small church of Saint Damiano. Today the location is the Basilica of Saint Clare Shrine
The Reluctant Saint Chapter Four Year 1205 (By Donald Spoto (pp. 44-45) Published 2012 by Penguin Books. Sa int Damiano in Assisi where Saint Francis experienced his vision. Today this is the Basilica of Saint Clare. As the indolent, lazy, summer of 1205, turned into autumn, Francis continued to work with his father in a kind of quiet, resigned desperation, unable to envision either a bright future or a chance at either knighthood or nobility. Late one afternoon, he was returning from an errand to one of the properties his father owned outside the city of Assisi’s walls, located south of the town. Having grown weary after hours of walking in the bright sunlight, he wandered into the cool refuge of San Damiano, which stood a mile from the city walls, at the foot of the hill on which Assisi was built. San Damiano was a small church and over its doorway Francis could make out the faded words oten inscribed in country chapels, Domus Mea (My House). Once he was inside, Francis sat alone, hi...