Forty-day retreat at La Verna
· La Verna, Chiusi della Verna, Tuscany, Italy
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 · file Francis withdrew to La Verna for a forty-day fast before Michaelmas; the retreat is associated in the source tradition with the stigmata. The source says August 1224; it reports the stigmata tradition separately.
