San Francesco Montefalco
 
A Franciscan church and convent in Montefalco, Umbria, now in use as a museum.
  Building the church began in 1335. The feature we will look at in detail is the apse, frescoed by Benozzo Gozzoli and showing scenes from the life of St Francis.



The renunciation of worldly goods


Establishment of the Manger at Greccio



Expulsion of the Devils from Arezzo


Preaching to the Birds


The Meeting of St Francis and St Dominic


The Ordeal by Fire


The Stigmatisation


The Death of St Francis
On to the Franciscans in England

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