page_title: Papal Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi
section_title: The Rose Garden and the Rose Chapel
hierarchical_section_title: Papal Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi / The Rose Garden and the Rose Chapel
caption_attribution_description: Statue of St. Francis and the wolf; the Rose Garden, Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, Italy
context_page_description: The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels is a Papal minor basilica situated in the plain at the foot of the hill of Assisi, Italy, in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli.
  The basilica was constructed in the Mannerist style between 1569 and 1679, enclosing the 9th century little church, the Porziuncola, the most sacred place for the Franciscans. It was here that the young Francis of Assisi understood his vocation and renounced the world in order to live in poverty among the poor, and thus started the Franciscan movement.
context_section_description: One enters the rose garden via the sacristy. It is the last remains of the ancient wood in which St Francis and his friars lived. Here he talked to the turtle doves, inviting them to praise the Lord. Doves have been nesting since times immemorial in the hands of the statue of St. Francis in this rose garden.
  According to tradition (already attested at the end of the 13th century), one night St. Francis, feeling the temptation to abandon his way of life, rolled naked in the bramble thorns in an attempt to overcome doubt and temptation. In contact with his body, the bramble bushes turned into dog roses without thorns. Since then, the dog rose cultivar Rosa canina assisiensis has been grown in the garden.
  From the rose garden, one enters the Rose Chapel. This was the cell where St. Francis rested and spent the rest of the night in prayer and penance. Here St. Francis also met Saint Anthony of Padua. After his death a chapel was built in the 13th century and enlarged in the 15th century by St. Bernardine of Siena. It was decorated between 1506 and 1516 with a series of frescoes by several painters, including Umbrian Tiberio d'Assisi who depicts the early Franciscan community and the first saints of the order, the miracle of the roses, and the concession of the indulgence
caption: Rose garden – bronze statue by V. Rossignoli (1916).
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