Church of Saint Mary of the Arch Angels

Sun… FINALLY!!!!

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May 17th 2010
10:06 pm This morning we headed out to Assisi, the home of Saint Francis and Lady Claire. We hoped on a bus for a 45 minute drive to Assisi and got a quick nap in along the way. Our first stop in Assisi was the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Angels. This Baroque Cathedral was built around the place where Saint Francis chose to live out the rest of his life in a little one room church and th ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more