It does not form part of the cycle of the chapels of the Sacro Monte. It only
recalls the spot where Bernardino CaA' first celebrated Holy Mass in this great
work of his.Built at the end of the 15th century.The present fresco, portraying
the death of St. Francis, is the work of Pier Celestino Gilardi (1880).
Fra Bernardino Caìmi
Fra Bernardino Caimi , commonly known as "Blessed Bernardino Caimi ", conceived
The idea of the Sacro Monte. He undertook its realisation from 1480 to 1499,
the year of his death, in order to show the Christians of Italy what the "Holy
Places", then under the Mussulmans rule, were like.
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