An encounter between Christianity and Poetry

For the first time, Jacopone was remembered at Christmas in the city of Todi and in a convent of Franciscan Friars Minor. On Christmas night in 1306 (716 years ago) Jacopone died in the small Convent of the Poor Clares of Collazzone. This meeting was dedicated to two laudi that celebrate the coming of Christ into this world and to one laude that recalls Jacopone's passage from this world to life beyond life. As the title suggests, the evening was intended to be a rediscovery of the Christian Christmas.

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