Pilgrimage walk to Assisi

WHY A PILGRIMAGE...IN ITALY? Saint Francis and Saint Anthony, the Seraphic Founder and the Learned Apostle (meo episcopus) of the Franciscan Order, are two great "figures" who have stirred the perpetual engine of humble and simple spirituality, a perpetual source for all people who are suffering from an existential aridity. Thanks to these suppositions, the wish to offer a Pilgrimage was born aimed at fulfilling the new spiritual requirement. Differently from the past, it is a research of "movement" where the pilgrim wants to explore in primis original experiences just to open himself to the compassion of that Love "that moves the sun and the other stars". Apparently the purpose of the pilgrim is to walk to Assisi, but in reality "he advances towards himself" to join the Divine within. The Pilgrimage to Assisi is not a recognised pilgrimage as you might suppose, but it is the fusion of many other short traditional pilgrimages, that already existed in the local sphere (See: Assisi, La Verna, Casella, Cerbaiolo, Montecasale, Montepaolo). These ways are linked to peculiar devotions and, lived in this spiritual dimension again, will give a new surge to the interior research, renewing the essence of Francisco's doctrine. So it should be, not only the stones to testify to the stranger His Teaching, but also the renewal of the original Franciscan fraternity along the pilgrimage and in the community of Assisi itself.

HOW THE PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI WAS BORN!! 

The Pilgrimage to Assisi was nearly spontaneously born from the fusion of many other short traditional pilgrimages, that already existed in the local sphere (See: Assisi, La Verna, Casella, Cerbaiolo, Montecasale, Montepaolo). These ways are linked to peculiar devotions and, lived in this spiritual dimension again, will give a new surge to the interior research, renewing the essence of Francis’s doctrine. So it should be, not only the stones to testify to the stranger His Teaching, but also the renewal of the original Franciscan fraternity along the pilgrimage and in the community of Assisi itself. So this new opportunity of pilgrimage stands in a wonderful natural Italian scenery, that has grown under the spiritual guidance of two great saints, Francis and Anthony, to brighten up the flame of "that Love that moves the sun and the others stars" that every man nearly unconsciously carries in himself. Pilgrimage to Santiago and Assisi wined Just in the month of July (2007), the councillors of Santiago and Assisi decided to twin these two towns for the common cultural and spiritual affinities, re-proposing the pilgrimage as a real source of a "new" evangelisation.

CREDENTIAL OF THE PILGRIMAGE

The credential, registered by "the Company of the Pilgrimage", is issued to each "pilgrim member".

The credential is the only official document recognised by all the members involved in the organisation of the pilgrimage and it allows pilgrims to use refuges and to obtain reduced prices for various services, associated to the Company, such as: taverns, boarding-houses, bed and breakfasts, hotels, etc., and also to receive at the end of the Cammino the "Francescana", a certificate testifying the completion of the pilgrimage, delivered by the monks of Assisi. Application Form for the Credential

source: Giordano
http://www.camminodiassisi.it/