The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

Desperate to impoverish himself, he tries to donate a large amount of his father’s money to a local church; the priest, ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

When you meet a guy, for example, like Francis ... Saint, and the restlessness of the subject is shared by the author. His book, Leppin writes, “does not present itself as a biography in the ...

Doctor of the Church relied on divine grace and the maternal care of the Virgin Mary to temper that vice and become a man of ...

Gian Maria Vian, a former editor in chief of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said that he appreciated the “many personal details” the book added to Francis’ biography ...

“Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and is the ... “His idea was to publish a posthumous book, but then the 2025 Jubilee of Hope came along and became a ...

a statue of St. Francis of Assisi remained completely intact “I do think there is a spiritual significance,” 5th grade teacher Blair Manzke tells PEOPLE The Pasadena Waldorf School was ...