Timeline Stories Archive

January 3, 2017

03 Jan 1230 (May 25)

Transfer of the Saint’s remains to his tomb in the new papal basilica of San...

In Assisi, his friend Cardinal Hugolino now Pope Gregory IX canonizes Francis....

He is buried in the church of San Giorgio....

Francesco dies at the Portiuncula in the evening....

Staying at the Bishop’s house in Assisi, Francis knows that he is dying, writes the...

Francis goes to Fontecolumbo where the doctors cauterize his temple in an unsuccessful treatment. At...

His eye problems turn worse and he stays for a while at San Damiano with...

The long retreat of Francis at La Verna where he receives the Stigmata....

The first Christmas Crib midnight Mass at Greccio....

Francis goes to Fontecolombo to write the definitive Rule for the Order of Friars Minor....