Saint Francis Of Assisi Research Paper

Saint Francis of Assisi, San Francesco d’Assisi. Sait Francis was baptized Giovanni, renamed and the renamed Fancesco; his original name was Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone. Saint Frances was born in1181/82 in Italy. He dies on October third in the year of 1226 in a Assisi, Italy. He was canonized as a saint on July 16, 1228; his feast day is October fourth. In his life time he was founder of three difference organizations: the Franciscan orders of the Friars Minor (Ordo Fratrum Minorum), the women’s Order of St. Clare (the Poor Clares), and the lay Third Order. He was also a leader of the movement of evangelical poverty in the early 13th century. His character and his kind heart was what drew thousands of people to become his followers. Francis’s devotion to Jesus and his desire to follow Jesus’ example reflected and reinforced important developments in medieval spirituality. The Poverello (“Poor Little Man”) is one of the most esteemed religious figures in Romanis Catholic history, and he and Catherine of Siena are the patron saints of Italy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II identdified him as the patron saint of ecology.
Francis preached the teaching of the Catholic Church, that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffers need redemption because of the pri-mordial sin of man. He preached to all (man and …show more content…
He called all creatures his “brothers”and “sisters,” and even preached to birds. He supposedly persuaded a wolf to stop attacking some locals if they agreed to feed the wolf. Frances was very in touch with nature. In his “Canticle of the Creatures”(a religious song by Saint Frances), he mentioned the “Brother Sun” and “Sister Moon,” the wind and water, and “Sister Death", he referred to his chronic illnesses as his “sisters." His deep sense of brotherhood under God embraced others, and he declared that “he considered himself no friend of Christ if he did not cherish those for whom Christ