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How to survive the end times

The tomb is in the crypt, beneath two vast churches stacked one on top of the other, beneath Giotto, beneath Cimabue, beneath an acre of fresco and several thousand tonnes of pink and white Subasio limestone. The foundation stone of the Basilica di San Francesco was laid on 17 July 1228, the day after Francis was canonised and less than two years after his death. The man who owned nothing was given the biggest house…

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