Francis of Assisi Quotes
There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
Francis of Assisi. "A Salutation of the Virtues." Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, Volume I: The Saint, edited by Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellmann, and William J. Short, New City Press, 1999, p. 165.
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Francis of Assisi, venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, mystic, and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity.
