The Chruches Teaching About My Pilgrimage Site

Discuss Church teachings about the pilgrimage site and what you expect to learn from visiting the site

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The site which we will be visiting is St Francis Basilica in Assissi, Italy. This is a church that was dedicated to St Francis, it is built in his hometown and has the body of Saint Francis in a stone crypt below the church where people can go a pray and look at him.

Thousands of people visit this site a year and they are all doing this for their various reasons. The town is Assissi is a country town in the middle of Italy. It is the persect place to relax and come closer to God.

The Church says that this may be a site to visit on a pilgrimage because it reflects on the chosen saint and because it is in a holy place (church) there is reverence shown and reflections are ideal.

From visiting this site I hope to learn more about St Francis and more about his hometown and life. I also hope to learn what his living conditions were like and how muh of an inspration he is to the village, by talking to the locals, visiting his house and going to some of the places he went that had a role in him becomming a saint.