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Home > Stops Along the Walk > Fontecolombo: The Franciscan Sinai

Fontecolombo: The Franciscan Sinai
Fontecolombo Sanctuary"This is Fontecolombo. We should climb it barefoot because this site is truly sacred."

Anonymous of Rieti. Actus Beati Francisci in Valle Reatina, II, 60. Edited by A. Cadderi, Assisi, Edizioni Porziuncola, 1999.

The Sanctuary of Fontecolombo is located in a secluded area in a forest of centuries-old holm-oaks on the slopes of the very lush Mount Rainiero. It is the Franciscan Sinai. It was the site chosen by Saint Francis to write the Rule of the Franciscan Order. Everything is sacred here: the buildings, the pure spring waters and the forest itself because it houses the Sacro Speco, the Sacred Cavern where Saint Francis wrote the Rule.
Saint Francis underwent an operation on his eyes here: all the veins from his ear to his eyebrow were cauterised with a red-hot iron. Sources claim that Brother Fire miraculously saved the Saint from feeling pain.

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Dear staff of the Saint Francis Walk and the Director of the Rieti Tourist Board, we are writing to you from Ecuador. In August (2004) we took the Saint Francis Walk and promised the director a written account of our Walk that was not only of a tourist nature but deeply spiritual. This article is... freccia
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