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Francis searched for the poverty and dispossession of the material things. However, the passage of the life of the saint for the construction of the Franciscan order properly speaking make these aims being subject of several contents. From the peregrination towards the stable settlements, between the hermitage and the city, it will be concerned several aspects of the material dimension of the seraphic experience, in relation to its house in the world. Attention will be paid to the place where the Franciscans had been occupied, specially focusing on the situation of the convent in the urban environment, about its medieval location even the precepts of the implantation and attributes in the city. It was considered the most significant facts during the period of the life of the saint and the episodes of the history of the Order in its process of expansion in the followed centuries, from the context of Assisi towards the whole world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]