Thank you Vic Stefanu i love your short film, i also went to Assisi in 2017 and found such peace and joy , next time i hope to find your forrest. Blessings and joy
I have been in Assisi twice. The first time I was really impressed and very touched by S.Francesco and Clara presence. But I have not been to the monastery where he started his order. Maybe next time.
Hi Vic. Beautiful amazing video. Thank you so much!!! for taking us to this wonderful place with so much history. Wonderful job. Very appreciated it. Greetings from Canada🇨🇦
I hope you mean "finish the things you really want to do and see in your life" by making it to that wonderful place..it's on my list of places I want to see, too 😊
Thanks Vic, very nice tour, was so gutted last year went we toured around Tuscany, and the day before was going to Assisi got sick, looks very interesting,
love history, in fact i search out history here in malta on my weekly vlogs last week i went down to the grotto of st paul who was shipwrecked in malta in around A.D. 60
lovely video my name is francis agusta surname is italian and like st francis i love animals more than life my great great grandfather was from italy im irish but i live now in indonesia in a very poor area but i love the people such love from them and love for one another im very proud to be amongst them and hounered im catholic but my wife is muslim and we have no proablem with that god is in everyting and i see it a lot here
At 6:37, on the right hand side, directly opposite the bronze figures of Francis and two of his "brothers", you can get a very brief look at the successor of the oak tree where the saint preached to the birds. I was in Assisi in 2004, and saw it myself during a visit to Eremo delle Carceri...
Thank you so much. Looks like I will be comment 113, my favorite number. (112 comments before and after... Hmmm...) I grew up in Pennsylvania America. In the 80s I was in High School as a teenager. I used to always keep Murray Bodo's book on St Francis while I walked through Hell. God Bless. Thomas Joyce, grandson of Thomas Joyce who broadcast the first Mass and introduced Tell-A-Vision in 1939. :)
Thank You ,beautiful video and history . I’d love to visit the caves and park . We are going to Assisi in two weeks . Are the caves and park open to walk through . And is there parking? Thank You . Peace
Hello and thank you for watching my videos. There is plenty of parking (get there early!) and the park is open to walk through but the existing caves found along the path are closed with metal fences..
I always understood that St.Francis was 47 when he died. 20 years after his conversion @ the age of 27. This I discovered in my study of Franciscan History. 44 is the recorded age here.?
Hello and thank you for watching my videos. Wikipedia mentions that St Francis was 44 years old at the time of his death. Here is the actual text: 'Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis; 1181 or 1182 - 3 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, and mystic. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity.'
The mother of St Francis was named "Pica" , she was french. St. Francis was bilingual, they called him il 'Francesco because he spoke french. His baptisimal name was Giovanni Di Bernardone. His father's name was Bernardo. I do not know where in France Pica came from. Assisi is beautiful, serene & a very holy place to the Italians. My mother is from Italy & I can say that Italy is the most breathtaking country I have ever had the privilege to see. Perugia is nearby as the town of Vinci where Leonardo was born, (his house still stands)..........thank you for sharing this beautiful video w/ the world . St. Francesco is the patron saint of animals, the most beautiful of all living entities are animals, this is why St. Francesco is my favorite saint.
The cave at 8:24 may be that of Brother Leo, according to the sign "Fra Leone". Brother Leo was St. Francis's closest companion and scribe. He was with St. Francis when he received the stigmata.
Beautiful ❤️Visited Assisi but didn’t have a chance to visit these forest areas,St .Francis is one of my favorite saints.Thank you so much for the video.Love from India
It' s an amazing video Vic...and what a story of St.Francis...my guardian Saint...because I used His name when I was Baptized . I have been to Basilica of St .Francis in 2000..but didnt go to this place.. You really did a great job to make this video with your fascinating information of St .Francis. Thousands thanks from my heart Vic...God Bless You and be with You always🙏
@@VicStefanu I wish I would be there one day...so I can follow your steps to the cave where St.Francis spent his life in a humble place to be with his Greatest Love..our God.. And...would be much better if I can meet you there...🙏
What a mysterious and beautiful place... Maybe it was the birds singing...but I was feeling some kinda way!!! I would love to see the place in Greece..if you have a video!🙄👍❤️
Sure, here is one of the monasteries in the area of Greece I mentioned in this video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CK2DFkPWXOs.html
hello vic hope you fine today my friend, great great video of st francis de assisi and the place real beautiful and nice music from the birds, have a nice day
Hi Vic, How do I get to the site of the caves from Assisi? Is it possible to get there by car or is it better to walk from the town? Any comments are most welcome. Thank you.
Hi, the site of Eremo delle Carceri is about 5 kilometers away from the centre of Assissi, it is easier to take a car than having to walk around 10 kilometers distance there and back from Assissi..
I thoroughly enjoyed the fantastic video showcasing the locations where Francis once journeyed. It's such an amazing video that I find myself revisiting it annually.
It's called Eremo Le Carceri. Originally it was occupied by Syrian hermit monks fleeing persecution from Muslims in the 9th Century but St Francis occupied it early in his vocation and later on. St Bernardine of Sienna reformed the Order and had many of the current buildings made for the friars (they are not monks).
This is the prison hermitage. It is not a sanctuary or a monastery. The Friars Minor built not monasteries but convents. It's just a detail but important. Nice video.
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Thank you very much for this really lovely video, and so happy that there was no distracting music, but beautiful bird song, so appropriate. Stt Francis has long been very close to my heart, though I'm not a Catholic and have never been to Italy. But my father was an Italian prisoner of war, over here in UK, he was born not too far from Assisi, though he had sadly become a non believer and was a cruel man. But I loved Jesus from an early age and St Francis was a truly Holy man of extremely rare quality. I loved your video, it's touched my heart deeply. God Bless 🙏🏻💖
Hello Hannah, thank you for these wonderful comments! 😊😊😊 I must admit that visiting this place was one of the most wonderful experiences in my life, I am so glad I got a chance to record my visit... I hope I can go back one day soon!
Thank you for sharing this. I was blessed to spent five days in Assisi back in 2002, and managed to spend an afternoon in this beautiful place. A young friar also allowed me to pray in their private chapel.
What a beautiful place, I am so glad I decided to visit.. I was virtually alone and I will never forget the experience f walking around the whole area...
