St. Francis of Assisi

It is a slap in the face of the martyr-Crusaders and such as St. Francis of Assisi who sought to bring salvation to the Sultan.

CONFIRMED 2009

Notable exceptions to this pattern were mystics such as St. Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich who wrote and taught prolifically about their own and humanity's relationship with nature.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED cabinboy 2010

[This, along with other stories used in Paton's book, is from The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi, which is available online here.

Dewey's Treehouse 2009

Dick sought counsel with Father Quinn, the senior priest at St. Francis of Assisi, and Quinn led Dick from the labyrinth.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

Dick sought counsel with Father Quinn, the senior priest at St. Francis of Assisi, and Quinn led Dick from the labyrinth.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

Dick sought counsel with Father Quinn, the senior priest at St. Francis of Assisi, and Quinn led Dick from the labyrinth.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

Rev. Brian Jordan from the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, who served as a chaplain at Ground Zero, said, "Islam did not bring down those towers it was fanaticism."

Mosque Near Ground Zero Gets OK 2010

Built in the early 13th century by hermits who followed St. Francis of Assisi, Fonte delle Foglie

Under Another Tuscan Sun Kate Bolick 2010

At Tolstoy's request, she also translated a biography of St. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier into Russian.

'Sophia Tolstoy' 2010

Against this backdrop, he called his contemporary Gandhi -- and other figures such as Jesus, Moses, St. Francis of Assisi, and Buddha -- "spiritual geniuses."

Krista Tippett: Religion and Science: Finding Their Kindred Spirits Krista Tippett 2010