Farm holidays Farmhouse in Umbria Casale La Mora. Francésco in Assisi Biography Saint, founder of the Franciscan order, patron of Italy (Assisi around 1182-1226). Child of Pietro of Bernardone, wealthy merchant, and of Monna Pica, of French (complimentary to which his/her father wanted then to change him the name of baptism Giovanni in Francis, "French") origin, Francis studied the languages Latin and French and the poetry trovadorica and in youth you/he/she was happy-go-lucky and squanderer. According to the customs of the social class to which it belonged, it participated in the war between Assisi and Perugia (1202). Done imprisoned and then struck by serious illness, not just recovered he/she wanted to depart to the time of Puglia (1205) to fight against the emperor, but to Spoleto it stopped him for a premonitory dream and, returned to Assisi, deepest Christian spirituality was converted to and it lavished him in to help the poor men and the lepers and it devoted him to the restauration of he/she asked her. His/her father, offended in his/her family pride, it held him/it closed in the house and then it brought his/her case in front of the arbitrage of the city consuls, but Francis appealed to that of the bishop and to his/her presence you/he/she abdicated every possession of his proclaiming his/her bride the poverty. Meditating on the mission of the apostles, definite to give him to the preaching to invite all to abandon the terrestrial good and to imitate Christ in poverty. Bernard of Quintavalle, Pietro Cattani, monk Egidio, Giovanni of the Chapel, Bernard of Vigilante and others followed him/it; to them Francis dictated a first rule, that traced the essential lines of the new religious community in simple way. With these first disciples Francis went him to Rome, where you/he/she got from Innocenzo III the oral approval of his/her rule (1210). The new order had its first center in the church of the Porziuncola and quivi on March 18 1212 Saint Chiara it dressed the religious suit and it founded, together with Francis the second Franciscan order, that of the clarisses.
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