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St. Francis, a 2002 film directed by Michele Soavi, starring Raoul Bova as Francis. Clare and Francis, a 2007 film directed by Fabrizio Costa, starring Mary Petruolo and Ettore Bassi; Pranchiyettan and the Saint, a 2010 satirical Indian Malayalam film; Finding St. Francis, a 2014 film directed by Paul Alexander
[41] [42] The saint's namesake American archbishop and military vicar Francis Spellman distributed millions of copies of the "Prayer of St. Francis" during World War II, and the next year it was read into the Congressional Record by Senator Albert W. Hawkes. As a friar later summarized the relationship between the prayer and St. Francis: "One ...
Whether St. Francis wrote several rules or one rule only, with several versions, whether he received it directly from heaven through revelations, or whether it was the fruit of his long experiences, whether he gave it the last touch or whether its definite form is due to the influence of others, all these are questions which find different answers.
St Francis F.C., a football club in Ireland; Nobilissima Visione, a 1938 ballet by Paul Hindemith, known at its New York performance as Saint Francis; Convent of Saint Francis (Vitoria-Gasteiz), a former convent in Basque Country, Spain; Feast of Saint Francis, a religious and civil celebration annually held in Italy and other locations
It shows Saint Francis of Assisi (the Cardinal's name-saint) at the moment of receiving the signs of the Stigmata, the wounds left in Christ's body by the Crucifixion. The story is told by one of Francis' companions, Brother Leo. In 1224 Francis retired to the wilderness with a small number of his followers to contemplate God.
Saint Francis (of Assisi) in Ecstasy is the title of several paintings: Saint Francis in Ecstasy; Saint Francis in Ecstasy; Saint Francis in Ecstasy; Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy; Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (El Greco, 1600)
The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died.
Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi is the name given to the classic collection of popular legends about the life of Francis of Assisi and his early companions. The main body of the collection was translated into Italian by an unknown fourteenth-century friar from a larger Latin work, the Actus B. Francisci et Sociorum Ejus, attributed to Ugolino Brunforte.