Where would you go?
Probably Assisi. I know what has become known as “the Franciscan spirit” is really a later, softer invention or adaptation, but God is still in it. Simplicity, humility, poetry – devotion with a smile and a sense of humour. And optimism too. Despite a radical rejection of riches (and even clothing) at his conversion, there’s no sense of rejection by Francis of the deep goodness of the material world which you get with many other saints. A pilgrimage there would be an affirmation, an encouragement to wonder, to gratitude.
