Altar and crucifixion fresco, Eremo delle Carceri

St Francis in prayer before the Crucifixion, fresco, 15th century, in the small church built by St Bernardino of Siena in the early 15th century, at the Eremo delle Carceri, a hermitage site in a gorge on Monte Subasio 4km from Assisi, Umbria, Italy. St Francis visited here for prayer and it developed from an original 12th century oratory to a site with hermit caves, a small friary and church. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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