Francisco de Asis – An Educational Guide
Saint Francis of Assisi
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as St. Francis of Assisi, was a Catholic friar from Italy. After a restless youth he turned to a religious life of poverty, founding a mendicant order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans, who renewed Catholicism of his time. His position as one of the great saints of Christianity took hold when he was still alive, and remains unshaken. He was canonized by the Catholic Church less than two years after his death in 1228, and his appreciation of nature is known worldwide as the patron saint of animals.