 Returning to Assisi, he traversed the city begging stones for the restoration of St. Damiano's.These he carried to the old chapel, set in place himself, and so at length rebuilt it.Over the course of two years, he embraced the life of a penitent, during which he restored several ruined chapels in the countryside around Assisi, among them San Pietro in Spina (in the area of San Petrignano in the valley about a kilometer from Rivotorto, today on private property and once again in ruin); and the Porziuncola, the little chapel of St. Mary of the Angels in the plain just below the town.