Assisi

courage gave them the ability to die for their faith. Saints such as Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and Blessed Teresa of Calcutta are great examples of people who showed courage. Saint Francis of Assisi had a great trust in God. Saint Francis was born into a rich family. When francis was 20 he joined the army and fought in the war. This task obviously took courage. After the war Saint Francis of Assisi gave away all of his money and gave it to the poor, even though his…

St. Francis de Sales was born near Annecy in Savoy, in 1567. He was the eldest of 12 children. He died in 1622 with the word “Jesus” on his lips. He was canonized in 1665. St. Francis de Sales is the patron saint of writers and journalists. Francis was a very smart man because Francis’s parents wanted him to become a lawyer and enter politics. At age 12 Francis went to college de clermont in paris. He also went to study philosophy and theology. Francis did not want to become a lawyer but wanted…

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20) Saint Francis accomplished many great things in his life. He had so many miracles that a biographer said: “of quite an ordinary occurrence” (Guiley). UNFINISHED Saint Francis Xavier was born on April 7th 1506, in the Spanish…

Francis, born and raised in Paris, France, attended Jesuit College Louis-le-Grand. Voltaire left school at age seventeen claiming to only learn “Latin and the Stupidities” and quickly became friends with Parisian Aristocrats. Voltaire was born November 21, 1694 to an upper-middle class family and was the youngest of five. Despite of his sickly childhood, Francis was able to obtain a lively life until May 30, 1778. Francis grew closer to his free-thinking god-father, Abbé de Châteauneuf, after…

Born in 1181 in Assisi, St. Francis was baptized as Giovanni by his mother. This infuriated his father, Pietro, when he returned from France because he did not want for his son to become a man of God, but rather a businessman, like himself. Pietro, therefore, renamed his son Francesco—meaning Frenchman. Growing up, he lived an undemanding life because of his father’s wealth. He was a charming born leader and every single person loved him. However, his money and likeableness led to parties, sin,…

This historical study will define the impact of St. Francis of Assisi on Italian cultural identity in the rejuvenation of the Roman Catholic Church in the medieval period. In the late 12th and 13th centuries, St. Francis of Assisi was a religious figure that chose to live a life of poverty and self-sacrifice in the image of Jesus Christ. During this historical period, the Roman Catholic Church had become an ostentatious and well-funded organization that did not embrace the common people of Italy…

William J. Short, tells the story of two important figures in Christian history: Saint Francis and Clare of Assisi. Francis began living his life in a way no other Christians imagined living. He willingly sacrificed all his belongings to live in poverty, not because he believed belongings were the root of all evil but because he knew he could still find happiness in poverty. Clare of Assisi found Francis' way of life moving and decided to also dedicate her life to poverty. "Clare and her…

Few gestures could be considered more transgressors than to be stripped of clothing in public as a symbol of renouncing wealth. St. Francis of Assisi did it. For Francis there was no turning back. The young man had decided to abandon his careless existence to marry "Lady Poverty." Such act was made when his father and the judges and the Bishop of Assisi believed him to be little more than a lunatic and demanded that he return the money of the family which he had given to the poor. But what was…

Marino Caracciolo “Keep me safe, O God, in you I take refuge.” St Francis of Assisi was born on September 26, 1182 in Assisi, Italy. He was born into a very rich family. He was spoiled and his parents didn’t discipline him. As a result of his free reign, he became a troubled child where he drank at a very early age, he partied, and was very rebellious. His parents didn’t seem to think that the way Francis was acting at a young age was a bad thing and didn’t think to reprimand him. He was…

Their mindset was so focused that the people below thought that there was a fire.“In the meantime the people of Assisi were horrified to see in the distance St. Mary of the Angels and the entire forest around it enveloped in flames… The blaze they saw was “to symbolize the fire of divine love which was burning in the sould” of these simple servants of Christ” (Streams…