'Do not possess gold or silver'
This chapel, built starting from 1609, represents a crucial event in the life of Francis. Inside the church of the Porziuncola, the young Francis listened to a reading of the gospel that struck him strongly: ‘do not possess gold, nor silver or copper in your purses, nor a travel bag, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff’. So Francis decided to make these words not only a source of inspiration, but also a model of ‘the way to live and dress’, as the Franciscan theologian Bonaventura da Bagnoregio wrote in 1263. From that moment on, Francis will wear only a tunic, abandoning any material wealth.