For more than six centuries, the brilliantly frescoed walls of Florence's Basilica of Santa Croce functioned as what its current rector, Father Antonio Di Marcantonio, calls "medieval PowerPoint": scenes from the Bible and saints' lives illustrating the sermons that Franciscanfriars preached to largely illiterate congregations.
Jorge Bergoglio is the first pontiff from Latin America and the first pontiff to adopt the name of Francis the name of the rich young man from Assisi who renounced wealth and founded the Franciscan order of friars in 1290.