Special Jubilee Year of Saint Francis · 2026–2027

Walk the Way
of St. Francis

A free, offline guide to the life and sacred places of the Poverello of Assisi — for pilgrims on the road and at home.

Now available on the App Store · iPhone & iPad
The Franciscan Pilgrimage home screen showing the Feast of St. Francis
Why this year

On October 3, 1226, St. Francis died at the Porziuncola. Eight hundred years later, the Church marks his passing with a Jubilee Year for pilgrims the world over.

800
years since the Transitus at the Porziuncola
Oct 4
the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
Jan 10, 2027
the special Jubilee Year of Saint Francis closes

A pilgrimage in your pocket

Theologically vetted content, written for prayer.

A 24-chapter journey

Walk Francis's life from his birth in Assisi to his death at the Porziuncola — each chapter pairs a short narrative with Scripture and a reflection.

37 sacred sites, mapped

From San Damiano and La Verna to the Holy Land. Filter the interactive map by what happened there, what kind of place it is, and its Franciscan charism.

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Find Jubilee churches near you

Locate Franciscan churches nearby, with addresses and directions, to make your pilgrimage for the plenary indulgence — granted under the usual conditions.

Franciscan prayers

The Canticle of Brother Sun, the Prayer of St. Francis, the Franciscan Crown Rosary, and site-specific devotions — drawn from authentic, canonical texts.

A daily companion

A Saint of the Day, a daily prayer, and a Jubilee countdown — on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets that keep the journey close.

Five languages, fully offline

English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese — every chapter, site, and prayer available without a signal once downloaded. Free. No ads. No tracking.

Vetted against the sources

Franciscan Pilgrimage was built by a solo Catholic developer with a Franciscan friar's theological lens. Its English source content has been fact-checked against the primary sources — Thomas of Celano, Bonaventure's Legenda Maior, and the Fioretti — and weighed against the best modern scholarship. Where tradition and history part ways, the app says so.

The prayers are drawn from authentic, canonical texts in each of the five languages, not machine translation. A pilgrimage app a Franciscan tertiary, a parish priest, and a seminary professor could all recommend — offered freely, in the spirit of Franciscan simplicity.

Thomas of Celano Bonaventure · Legenda Maior The Fioretti Vauchez & Thompson

Begin the journey this Jubilee Year

Franciscan Pilgrimage is now available — free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad — in time for the 800th anniversary of the Transitus.

Pax et Bonum.