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Meaning little portion (of land), the Portiuncula was the chapel of Our Lady of the Angels near Assisi, Italy, which the Benedictines gave to St Francis early in the 13th Century. He repaired the chapel and made it the first church of the Franciscan Order. It is now enshrined in the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels in Assisi. |
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