📌 Lugares franciscanos: Greccio, donde san Francisco realizo el PRIMER PESEBRE... - Vlog #75 -

Two weeks before Christmas in 1223, Saint Francis called John Velita, lord of the castle, and said to him: "If you want us to celebrate this feast of the Lord in Greccio, hurry there and prepare immediately what I am going to tell you. I want to celebrate the memory of the child born in Bethlehem, and I wish to contemplate with my own eyes how the child was laid in the manger… Everything was celebrated as planned: on Christmas night, the people of the castle went to the place where the friars lived, singing and with torches, in the middle of the woods. In a grotto, they prepared an altar over a manger, next to which they had placed a mule and an ox. That night, as Thomas of Celano wrote, simplicity was honored, poverty was exalted, humility was praised, and Greccio became a new Bethlehem. For such an original celebration, Francis had obtained permission from Pope Honorius III. The homily was sent to His position, for he was a deacon, and while he spoke of the Child of Bethlehem, he licked his lips, and his voice was like the bleating of a sheep. A man present saw in a vision a child lying asleep in the manger, and Francis awakened him from his sleep. 🎬 Other Franciscan Sites: 1️⃣📍 Franciscan Sites: PADUA / Basilica of Saint Anthony and Sanctuary of Saint Leopoldo Mandic - Vlog 74:    • 📍Lugares franciscanos: PADUA / Basílica de...   2️⃣ Franciscan Sites: Osimo: "Land of Saint Joseph of Cupertino" - Vlog # 28:    • Lugares Franciscanos: Osimo: "Tierra de Sa...   3️⃣ Franciscan Sites: Bagnoregio, a Medieval Mountaintop Town - Vlog 28/A:    • Lugares franciscanos: San Buenaventura Bag...   #SaintFrancis #Greccio #Christmas #Franciscans #Nativity