17, overlooking Tuscany’s Casentino Valley in Italy, Father Massimo Fusarelli ... in the Casentino Forests of Tuscany, La Verna is where St. Francis received the stigmata — some or all ...

At an April 5 audience with members of the Franciscan communities of La Verna, Italy, where St. Francis was staying when he received the wounds of Christ, Pope Francis commemorated the eighth ...

In Italy, two of the most renowned are the Monastery of La Verna in Tuscany and the Monastery ... is known as the place where St. Francis of Assisi received the stigmata. Beyond its spiritual ...

Legend says that about 800 years ago, in a small sanctuary in central Italy, St Francis became the first person in history to receive the stigmata, the bleeding wounds that mimic those of Jesus on ...