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When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

St Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 in Assisi, Italy, to a wealthy cloth merchant named Pietro di Bernardone and his French wife, Pica. His baptismal name was Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ...

St. Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone around 1181 or 1182 in Assisi, Italy, is a prominent figure among Catholics. He was a renowned Italian mystic and poet who renounced ...

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