The house comes into view again only in the fifteenth century when it was rented to the shoemakers' guild by the Santa Lucia monastery, an uncloistered branch of the Poor Clares, which Nicola's granddaughter Bibola is known to have entered. Presumably by that time, with all the principals dead, the term of the lease had been forgotten or were ignored. She transferred title to the order when she entered it. That order was suppressed in 1475 and the house disappeared from history. 12.12 Local traditions in Assisi indicate two other places as the house of Francis.
Pilgrims usually visit both shrines.
Chiesa Nova was built in 1615 with the initiative of king Philip III of Spain. From the church one passes to the remains of a medieval building, which is indicated as the paternal house of St. Francis. According to Batholomew of Pisa this was the stable in which Pica gave birth to Francis. Noel Muscat ofm Back . .