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Saint Francis of Assisi Church is a historic Norman Gothic Catholic church building in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. Its an early church in California, outside of the Spanish missions. It is also known as the St. Francis Parish, and the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi.
Paul Sabatier, Life of St. Francis of Assisi (Scribner's, 1905). Johannes Jurgensen, St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography (translated by T. O’Conor Sloane; Longmans, 1912). Arnaldo Fortini, Francis of Assisi (translated by Helen Moak, Crossroad, 1981). Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis (Ο Φτωχούλης του Θεού, in Greek; 1954)
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.
The University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Saint Francis Episcopal Day School, Potomac, Maryland; Saint Francis Episcopal Day School, Piney Point, Texas; Saint Francis Healthcare, Wilmington, Delaware; OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois, the largest hospital of the OSF HealthCare system run by Franciscan sisters
The site of the future Mission San Francisco was scouted by the Spanish missionary Pedro Font in March 1776 during a visit to the Bay Area by the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. [10] The Spanish missionaries named the new mission San Francisco de Asís, in honor of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order.
Charles II, King of Naples, consolidated and completed the temple of which St. Francis of Assisi had laid the foundations, [36] admiring the fact that, among other miracles, the Seraphic Father, in Gaeta, had resurrected, with the sign of the cross, from the coffin in which he was being carried to the funeral, a carpenter killed by a fallen ...
The Oratory of San Francesco Piccolino, or the Chapel of Little St Francis is a small devotional chapel in the centre of Assisi, near the Chiesa Nuova held by pious tradition to be the birthplace of Francis of Assisi. [1] [2] Many have falsely considered it to be the saints childhood home. [3]
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