In Umbria, Blessed Easter Cheesebreads for a Special Breakfast

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In the Umbria countryside, our rural neighbors still bake even more than a dozen cheesebreads in their outdoor bread ovens…or nowadays, in their indoor gas ovens. Our dear rural friend, Peppa – now over 80 – used to bake her multitudinous Easter cheese breads in this outdoor oven near her farmhouse: This year, she made…

Holy Thursday in Assisi: An Evocative Tradition Lives On

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As you enter the 13th-c. Cathedral of San Rufino in Assisi, head to the right to see the baptismal font where St. Francis and St. Clare were both baptized; following this tradition, all the Assisi children are baptized in this church but in a side chapel. A bouquet of lilies crowned the baptismal font during…