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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 .
Francis recovered, which she believed meant that God had granted her prayer. At 13 years of age Francis fulfilled that votive year. After this year he dedicated himself to a life of solitude and penance as a hermit. [2] In 1435, two followers joined Francis and began the community, which was first called the "Poor Hermits of St. Francis of Assisi."
San Francesco da Paola ai Monti is an 18th-century titular church in Rome. It is dedicated to St Francis of Paola, the founder of the Order of Minims, whose friars serve this church and whose Generalate is attached to it, and is located in the Monti rione.
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Seen when viewed from the left of the painting, St Francis is dressed in the habit of the order he founded and with the marks of stigmata mirroring the crucifix he holds in the same hand. Seen when viewed from the right is another St Francis – St Francis of Paola (St Francis de Paul) – wearing a cowl , and holding a paper marked CHARITAS.
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 ...
II chapel: The chapel was consecrated in 1392 by a member of the Rossi family and preserves an altarpiece with St. George on horseback by Bernardino Ciceri. III chapel: preserves a painting by Pietro Antonio Magatti depicting the apparition of Saint Francis of Paola and a late 16th century painting with the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen.
He also painted an altarpiece depicting St Francis of Sales. The sacristy ceiling is frescoed by Francesco Guala with the Assumption of the Virgin (1756-1757). Guala also painted canvases with Christ in the Garden and the Christ with Crown of Spines. The nave ceiling was frescoed by Giuseppe Giudici with the Glory of St Francis of Paola.