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4 unusual facts about La Verna


Fausto Vagnetti

In 1922 he painted three monumental portraits of the Italian Sovereigns for the Governmental Palace of Zara; in 1923 he carried out a "Trittico francescano" in the Church of S. Polo near La Verna (in Tuscany).

Lavernia

La Verna, a mountain in Tuscany, called Lavernia by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Mount Alvernia

Originally named "Como Hill", it was renamed Mount Alvernia after La Verna, the hill in Tuscany where St. Francis of Assisi received the Wounds of the Cross.

Ubertino of Casale

Therefore, Ubertino was summoned before Pope Benedict XI, forbidden to preach at Perugia, and banished to the convent of Monte Alverna.



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