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Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi (Rome)

Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi (Rome)

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Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi (Rome)

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Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Paul

April 20, 2025

Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi
The monument to Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226) in Porta S. Giovanni square was inaugurated in 1927 on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of the saint's death.
The Committee for the Honor of Saint Francis had already submitted a proposal for a monument commemorating the great saint and patron saint of Italy in 1923. The project was commissioned to the sculptor Giuseppe Tonnini (1875–1954), an artist who had previously collaborated on the design of the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II.
The site chosen for the monument, near the Basilica of St. John Lateran, at the beginning of the green area of Via Carlo Felice, which the municipality had rediscovered and laid out in 1925, is visually connected to the Basilicas of St. Cross in Jerusalem and St. John Lateran and provides a suitable backdrop for the monumental composition. On a high pedestal with tuff steps stands the statue of the saint, depicted in prayer with his arms raised and his palms facing the Basilica of St. John. Behind him are five other statues: set back from the saint and at different levels of the pedestal, they represent the disciples who accompanied him to Rome to meet Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) for the approval of the Rule, and more generally, all his spiritual disciples.
On the front of the monument is the dedicatory inscription; on the other side are the verses of Canto 11 of the Paradise of the Divine Comedy, which Dante Alighieri uses to describe the figure of the saint.
Text / Source: Comunicazione Sovrintendenza, Piazza Lovatelli 35, Rome
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Gosia Kubinski

May 16, 2022

this is where the Franziskusweg ends

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Fabius

April 10, 2024

second stop

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Monument to Saint Francis of Assisi (Rome)

1. Urban hike around the Aurelian Walls – loop tour

2. Castel Sant'Angelo – St. Peter's Basilica loop from Monteverde

3. Appian Way – Selce Tower loop from Spagna

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