Francis of Assisi |St. Francis of Assisi, O.F.M.| Saint Francis
of Assisi in Ecstasy an oil painting by Jusepe de Ribera (1642)
|Religious, deacon, confessor and religious founder |Born||1181
– 1182 Assisi, Duchy of Spoleto, Holy Roman Empire
|Died||October 3, 1226 (aged 43–45) Assisi, Marche, Papal
States; |Honored in||Roman Catholic Church Old Catholic Church
New Age ecologists |Canonized||July 16, 1228, Assisi, Italy by
Pope Gregory IX| |Major shrine||Basilica of San Francesco
d'Assisi| |Attributes||Tau cross, dove, birds, animals, wolf at
feet, Pax et Bonum, Poor Franciscan habit, stigmata
|Patronage||animals; the environment; Italy; merchants;
stowaways; cub scouts; San Francisco, California| |Part of a
series on| St. Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco
d'Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, but nicknamed
Francesco ("the Frenchman") by his father, 1181/1182 – October
3, 1226) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded
the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. C