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Why did St. Francis of Assisiās journey to the Holy Land in 1212 fail?
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St. Francis and Scenes from His Life, tempera on panel by Bonaventura Berlinghieri, 1235; in the Church of San Francesco, Pescia, Italy.
St. Francis of Assisiās attempt to travel to the Holy Land in the late spring of 1212 failed because he was shipwrecked on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, which forced him to return home.1