Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Francis of Assisi
- Ammon;
- Petronius, bishop
Francis of Assisi: (died 3 Oct 1226 A.D.); noted for his charismatic personality, deep compassion for all, and love for God's creation; renounced wealth to follow "Lady Poverty"; deacon; founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Poor Clares and the Third Order; wrote Canticle of the Sun; received the stigmata 14 Sept. 1224 A.D.; canonized only two years after his death; patron of ecologists and of Italy.
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- St. Francis and the Franciscans, One of the Four Great Mendicant Orders in the Church, Learn more
- St. Francis' Involvement in the Crusades, Learn more
- St. Clare of Assisi and the Poor Clares - the "Second Order" of the Franciscans, Learn more
- St. Anthony of Padua, St. Bonaventure, and St. Lawrence of Brindisi: three Franciscan Doctors of the Church
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