And that August, a convent of the Franciscan order, a house for repentant women, gave refuge to the grieving Fornarina.

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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.

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Yet this Jesuit takes the name Francis from the humble servant of medieval Assisi who began the Franciscan order 300 years before Ignatius.

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The Franciscan order was born.

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In 1948 she left the order and founded her own, dedicated on Franciscan principles to serving the destitute and dying in the slums.

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