On 24 September 1961, a long procession wended its way down the final stage of the northern Franciscan Way, from Perugia to Assisi. No less than twenty thousand people gathered at the finish at Prato della Rocca, the fields in front of an impressive fortress that dated back to the time of Saint Francis himself, and that had once been held by Frederick Barbarossa, the 12th century Holy Roman Empero...