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    • When did St. Francis live? He was born in 1181 or 1182 (we’re not sure), and he died in 1226. He thus lived to be only 44 or 45 years old. He was born — and he died — in Assisi, Italy, which is somewhat near Rome.
    • How did he get the name “Francis?” Although many people take new names upon entering religious life, this is not how St. Francis originally got his name.
    • What was St. Francis’ early life like? His family was well-to-do, his father being a wealthy silk merchant. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia: “He was not very studious, and his literary education remained incomplete.
    • Did he fight in the military? Yes. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia: “When about twenty, Francis went out with the townsmen to fight the Perugians in one of the petty skirmishes so frequent at that time between the rival cities.
  1. Feb 18, 2018 · On March 13, 2013, white smoke suddenly started pouring out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, indicating that a new pope had been elected—and more quickly than most...

  2. Francis has changed the style of being pope, attacked clericalism, empowered the laity, opened the church to conversation and debate and changed the pastoral and public priorities of the church.

  3. Mar 10, 2023 · Published: March 10, 2023 8:40am EST. Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio first stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, he has made no shortage of...

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  4. Oct 2, 2020 · Within a few decades of his death in September of 1226, reports and stories about the saint underwent transformations that adapted them to new and developing concerns of the authors and audiences. Much elaboration and rewriting went on, and some stories about Francis were simply invented out of whole cloth.

  5. Mar 16, 2013 · On the third day of his pontificate, Pope Francis held an audience for the thousands of journalists who've been covering the transition from one papacy to another. And the new pope made it...

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  7. May 18, 2020 · The poverty and austerity of Saint Francis were no mere veneer of asceticism, but something much more radical: a refusal to turn reality into an object simply to be used and controlled.

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