St. Francis' pilgrimage

[Fernando Dulay]

To GOCAMINO SIGNING OFF.  THANK YOU VERY MUCH YO ALL!
       FERNANDO
--- Maryjane Dunn <mjdunnaTXUCOM.NET> wrote:
> Hi Rosina--
>
> Here's what I/Linda know about St. Francis and Stgo.
> (And by the way, if you
> have any more details about the new biography would
> you please post them)
>
> From Vazquez y Parga, Lacarra, Uria Riu, *Las
> Peregrinaciones a Santiago de
> Compostela* (1st published Madrid 1948, reissued and
> re-edited various times
> since then. In spite of some short comings it's
> still the most comprehensive
> single (actually 3 volumes) guide to the historical
> pilgrimage):
>
>         "(my rough translation) It seems the arrival
> of St. Frances in Spain should
> be placed between 1213 and the end of 1215, affirmed
> expressly by St.
> Buenaventura and alluded to by Tomas de Celano,
> according to the story of
> the _Fioretti_ (Chap. 4), that, as is known,
> translate the _Actus B.
> Francisci et sociorum_, a work that Sabatier
> believes to have been written
> prior to 1328. St. Francis 'al principio e
> cominiciamento dell'Ordine, per
> sua divozione ando' a San Giacomo di Galizia', and
> being in prayer through
> the night in the church of Stgo, God revealed to him
> the wondrous growth
> that his Order would take. From this pilgrimage it
> is supposed the
> Franciscan convent of Santiago about which exists
> the pious legend that
> tells of an inscription that one can read in the
> western wall of the
> convent: "...(lengthy legend about St. Francis
> staying with a poor man named
> Cotolay, near the hermitage of San Payo)..." (The
> legend is about the
> founding of the monastery through a miracle) It is
> said that the original
> document signed by St. Francis (about the basket of
> fish/miracle/legend) was
> given by the monks of San Martin to Felipe II and
> that it was in a reliquary
> in the Escorial."
>
> VyP cites a History of Logrono which says that St.
> Francis healed the son of
> a "senor de Agoncillo" who in thanks founded the
> convent of San Francisco on
> the banks of the Ebro...starting the convent
> immediately after the healing
> so that when the saint returned from Compostela he
> would see the convent
> very far along.
>
> He also cites "local legend" that Francis passed
> through Jaca and San Juan
> de la Pena, whose monks gave him land to start the
> convent there. It is true
> that in 1246, 20 years after St. Francis' death alms
> were being collected to
> conclude construction of the church and convent.
>
> VyP quotes from Gonzaga: "De origine Seraphicae
> Religionis, Privincia
> Cantabriae" that the first stop of Francis in Spain
> occurred in Rocaforte
> (between Sanguesa and Liedena)He supposedly stopped
> in the/a chapel
> dedicated to St. Bartholomew. And this became the
> first house and convent in
> Spain raised by St. Francis himself. (There are
> several other micro
> topographic references to St. Francis in this area:
> a well, an outcropping).
> Other chronicles say that Fr. Bernardo de Quintaval,
> companion of Francis on
> his pilgrimage, remained in Rocaforte upon St.
> Francis' orders, caring for a
> poor infirm pilgrim they found on the way.
>
> Legend (but little history) also says that Francis
> himself founded the
> convent in Santander.
>
> The most complete treatment (although not
> necessarily the most discerning)
> is by:
> Lopez, Atanasio:  "Viaje de San Francisco a Espana"
> Archivo ibero-americano
> 1.1 (1914): 13-45, 1.2 (1914): 257-89), 1.3 (1914):
> 369-90, 1.4 (1914):
> 542-63.  The last two portions treat St. Francis in
> Portugal.
>
> Maryjane
>
> > A new biography of St. Francis of Assisi, by
> House, has just been
> > published.
> > The advance notices claimed that the author had
> access to
> > historical sources
> > heretofore unavailable and disclosed new
information.


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