Assisi’s Good Friday Morning Procession: Remembered
I hadn’t missed Assisi’s evocative morning Good Friday procession in years. Until last year, due to COVID restrictions. And, anime’... View article
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In Assisi, a 14th Century Holy Thursday Ritual
I dropped in recently at Assisi’s Cathedral of San Rufino: I needed a couple photos. Built in the 12th-century on... View article
Gubbio’s Good Friday: Living Medieval Street Theater
Easter liturgies have incorporated early forms of performances and role-playing – varying from short text passages to long presentations –... View article
Mercato delle Gaite: Medieval Majesty in Bevagna
It all started with a celebration of roast suckling pig, la porchetta. As of the 1970’s, the Sagra della Porchetta had gathered the... View article
Colonel Valentin Muller: Protector of Assisi
During World War II, which Italian town was saved from devastation by a German commander? Assisi. The German occupying forces... View article
The Salvation of Assisi’s Jewish Refugees: Grazie, Monsignor Nicolini
During World War II in Assisi, the Bishop of Assisi sometimes had to double as a stonemason; that is, when... View article
Monastero di San Quirico in Assisi, a World War II Refuge
Ironically, just steps away from Assisi’s Museo della Memoria, 1943-1944 recounting the story of the salvation of Jewish refugees in Assisi... View article
Assisi’s Don Aldo Brunacci, Righteous Among the Nations
I first met Don Aldo Brunacci in 1975 shortly after Pino and I moved into our Assisi countryside farmhouse. At... View article
Assisi: Graziella Viterbi’s Refuge during the Holocaust
When I think about Graziella Viterbi, I always remember that bright twinkle in her eye, that spark. That spark was... View article
Those “Monks of Norcia” and Earthquake Restoration
Best known as birthplace (in the late 5th-c A.D.) of San Benedetto, founder of western monasticism, and his twin sister... View article
Agenzia Viaggi Stoppini in Assisi handles all technical support for my guided visits (bus transportation, organization of meals, etc)