It is Sunday in Assisi. The town is filled with tourists and pilgrims. The weather is cold and damp, but the enthusiasm is high among all of those who are visiting. I attended Mass in the Church of San Pietro. It was in Italian, but I got by. It was a wonderful liturgy which included the installation of new altar servers who were obviously excited about becoming altar servers. They were girls and boys around the ages of 7 to 10. After Mass, I walked through the streets of Assisi. It is a majestically beautiful town. I have a very large number of photos from yesterday and today. I may not be able to upload them because of the WiFi connection here and the time it takes to upload one photo. I will try, and if they take too long, I will continue in Rome. I decided to have three series of photos: one of the doors of Assisi (which beat those of Florence by a mile!), street scenes, and churches. Then I will have another set of photos I took today. I return to Rome tomorrow afternoon and look forward to the installation of Francesco I as Pope on Tuesday.
Let's close the door on this chapter and move on to photos of the medieval town of Assisi in the next posting.
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