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World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. The World Animal Day movement is supported and endorsed by a number of celebrities, such as Anneka Svenska , Brian Blessed and Melanie C .
Francesco, a 1989 film by Liliana Cavani, contemplatively paced, follows Francis of Assisi's evolution from a rich man's son to a religious humanitarian, and eventually to a full-fledged self-tortured saint. Francis is played by Mickey Rourke. St. Francis, a 2002 film directed by Michele Soavi, starring Raoul Bova as Francis.
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John Berchmans, SJ (Dutch: Jan Berchmans [jɑm ˈbɛr(ə)xmɑns]; 13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621) was a Belgian Jesuit scholastic and is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church. In 1615, the Jesuits opened a college at Mechelen, Belgium and Berchmans was one of the first to enroll.
Saints Dominic and Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger is an oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, executed in 1620, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It is linked to his similar work The Virgin Mary and Saint Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger (Brussels).
May 3 – Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London after being convicted of receiving bribes, but pardoned by King James I later in the year. [5] August 26 – Barten Holyday's allegorical play Technogamia, originally produced at Christ Church, Oxford in 1618, is staged before James I at Woodstock Palace. He dislikes it, but is ...
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
May 30 – June 24 – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély – Royal victory. June – Huguenot rebellions: Blockade of La Rochelle begins. August – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Montauban – Louis XIII besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.