All Franciscan Town

August 11
Hope you're not far off that joy of joys of heaven, marching to Assisi, the city all Franciscan eloquent monument of the great love and infinite charity of S. Father S. Francisco. Yes, I predict that one day soon I will reach the news that you have knelt there, in the small and devoted temple of the Holy Portiuncula blackened over the years, where, as has the good admirer of the work Franciscan , Mrs. Henrion, kissing of penitents through seven centuries of religious awe have polished as marble and alabaster the rough walls.How beats the heart of the pilgrim memoirist stop there to pray with fervor! Each dark brick tells the story of thousands and thousands of souls who, in trustful abandonment, have supported her head and the anxieties of life.
The pilgrim instinctively kneels there, and in divine silence, feeling that flutters about it as a blessing softest. And the infinite and sweet prayer echoes and passes for centuries and will for ever: love lit prayers of the saints, victims burnt pure tears redeemed.Oh, how great and sweet is, in the Church of Jesus, the doctrine of the communion of saints! This is truly the gate of eternal life, as written on the frontispiece of the small temple devotee of the Portiuncula.
  (December 30, 1921, Graciela Pannullo - Ep. III, p. 1087)