Fascinating. I have been to Assisi, spent two night there. It is incredible, and yes, well-defended and high on a hill. It is magical and spiritual, and now to think of it hanging upside down. Hmmm!
I love that "He would see them all in a new and divine light of eternal danger and dependence. Instead of being merely proud of his strong city because it could not be moved, he would be thankful to God Almighty that it had not been dropped." Another hmmm.
My sense of him after being there was that he was from wealth and was sick of it and he walked down the hill to the flats and met with the animals and was healed.
Yeah, thanks for sharing that. But he was a good person to start with. As a POW he was a friend to his captors and to the traitors within his group. He is said to have listened to people that even God would not listen to. This was before any of his spiritual experiences. I think he was as good a human being as 13th century Europe could have tolerated.
I agree. It is quite something to walk the streets where he walked. Someone told me when I was going to Italy, it was a place I should not miss. It was off our route, but we did it anyway, on her advice, and now I say to anyone going to Rome. "Assisi". It is a sacred place.
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I love that "He would see them all in a new and divine light of eternal danger and dependence. Instead of being merely proud of his strong city because it could not be moved, he would be thankful to God Almighty that it had not been dropped." Another hmmm.
My sense of him after being there was that he was from wealth and was sick of it and he walked down the hill to the flats and met with the animals and was healed.
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