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Francis of Paola, O.M. (also known as Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507), was a Roman Catholic friar from the town of Paola in Calabria who founded the Order of Minims. Like his patron saint ( Francis of Assisi ), but unlike the majority of founders of men's religious orders , Francis of Paola was never ordained a priest .
The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier is a large altarpiece painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1617 or 1618. ... Among these plague paintings include St. Francis of Paola, ...
In 1728, a Pope Benedict XIII assigned the church to the Minims, an order established by St. Francis of Paola. The current name of the church dates from 1730, when a series of miracles were linked to an icon painted on the exterior of a nearby house nearby, which was seen to emit light. The image was then transferred to the Church, and changed ...
The founder of the order, Francis of Paola, was born in 1416 and named in honor of Francis of Assisi.The boy became ill when he was only one month old, and his mother prayed to Saint Francis and promised that her son would spend a year in a Franciscan friary if he were healed.
A miracle of St. Francis of Paola by Hugford. Ignazio Hugford , or Ignatius Heckford (1703–1778), was an Italian painter active mostly in Tuscany in an early Neoclassic style. Life and work
The oval bas-reliefs depicting the Miracles of St Francis of Paola were completed by 1753 by Gaetano Perego. The paintings in the church library depicting the Triumph of Art and Science (1754) were completed by Giovanni Antonio Cucchi. He also painted an altarpiece depicting St Francis of Sales.
During a mass in Naples on Saturday, he was given a vial of dried blood belonging to St. Gennaro, the city's patron saint. Pope Francis credited for 'half-miracle' Skip to main content
The Presbyter of the Cathedral of Havana, don Nicolás Estévez Borges, in 1664 ordered the construction of a Hospital for Women and an adjoining church devoted to Saint Francis of Paola who was one of the founders of the Roman Catholic Order of the Minims. [a] San Francisco de Paula (1416-1507) was a hermit, famous for his humility and his ...