Our Br. Jim Mungovan can certainly be proud to have "walked the walk" in April-May 2026. He and his brother Anthony went to Italy's Province of the Marches (Marche) where the first roots of our Capuchin Franciscan life were planted in 1528. We've been celebrating and remembering those roots in these years leading up to our community's 500th Anniversary in 2028.
In the photo, our brother has arrived at the final point of the pilgrimage in Ascoli Picena, Italy, having walked 210 miles of the 233 mile cammino (the path or way in English). He texted the Province: I finished! One happy pilgrim!
Jim made it to Camerino, the first official friary for our Order and now known as the "birthplace" of our international community, now the fourth largest Religious Order of Men in the Church (after the Jesuits, Salesians and the group we broke from some 500 years ago: the Franciscans).
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In mid-journey, he sent along pictures in Fonte Avellana, the location of the Camaldolese monastery which “hid” the rebel Franciscan friars who would later became our founders.
Fonte Avellana
He was welcomed by various friars along the route, like our brother Pietro Maranesi in San Severino - he was a former member of our Capuchin Historical Institute in Rome. In the end, it was all about the certificate that'll refresh great memories of where his feet, and our Capuchin story, led him. Congratulations, Jim & Tony!!
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Read more about the Capuchin Way -- Cammino dei Frati Cappuccini - and the story of our beginnings . . .
