Francis of Assisi parish in Midtown, who was offering communion to workers at the site.
When he returned to Assisi, a spiritual change commenced, and Francis abandoned his worldliness.
CNN: St. Francis of Assisi: 'A great, great figure in the church'
Francis of Assisi seem "irrepeatable -- that there can be only one Francis, " he added.
Francis of Assisi, as a man of action, and someone who can command attention.
Francis of Assisi church in the colonial Old San Juan district in Puerto Rico.
He was freed after becoming ill, and when he returned to Assisi, Italy, a spiritual conversion began.
Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the poor may be conservative in terms of official church doctrine.
The son of an aristocrat, St Francis of Assisi spurned a life of luxury to live with and for the poor.
In 1202, around the age of twenty-one, he himself went to war, in a battle between Assisi and Perugia.
While standing before the bishop of Assisi, Francis stripped off his clothes and renounced his paternal inheritance, Benedict said.
CNN: St. Francis of Assisi: 'A great, great figure in the church'
Saint Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals and the environment.
Travelers usually venture to Assisi, the Umbrian town that was home to St.
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Francis of Assisi, who renounced a life of high-living for austere poverty and simplicity to preach Jesus' message to the poor.
Francis of Assisi, who gave up his own wealth and prestige, is revered among Catholics for his work with the poor.
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At times he calls for a thoroughgoing scepticism, even relativism, attacking the Christianity of Pascal (unconvincingly) and Francis of Assisi (amusingly).
St Francis of Assisi is said to have loved animals as his "brothers and sisters" and even to have preached to birds.
In 1986, when Pope John Paul II organized a conference of world religious leaders to promote peace, he held it in Assisi.
Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 or 1182 the son of a rich Italian cloth merchant, according to the Vatican website.
Francis of Assisi, revered among Catholics for his work with the poor.
The general impression conveyed is that henceforth future foreign assets must have the pedigree of Mother Teresa or Saint Francis of Assisi.
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He said he immediately thought of St Francis of Assisi, the Italian founder of the Franciscan Order who was devoted to the poor.
Francis, 76, expanded the image, referring to Francis of Assisi and saying that the role of protector was not just a Christian one.
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Within two years of his death, he was canonized, and work began on the basilica to be raised in his honor in Assisi.
Yet this Jesuit takes the name Francis from the humble servant of medieval Assisi who began the Franciscan order 300 years before Ignatius.
He was freed after becoming ill, and when he returned to Assisi, Italy, a spiritual conversion began, and he abandoned his worldly lifestyle.
But Assisi was soon defeated, and Francis spent a year in a dank prison, with rats, before his father was able to ransom him.
In choosing to call himself Francis, the new pope was associating himself with the much-loved Italian saint from Assisi associated with peace, poverty and simplicity.
It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us.
He was born in Assisi in 1181 or 1182, the son of a rich cloth merchant, and he enjoyed a carefree adolescence and youth, particularly with troubadours.
CNN: St. Francis of Assisi: 'A great, great figure in the church'
His chosen name, Francis, honours St Francis of Assisi, the 13th-Century son of an aristocrat who spurned a life of luxury to live with and for the poor.
BBC: Pope Francis in plea for poor as inauguration Mass held
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