{"id":1484,"date":"2018-10-04T00:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:46:32","slug":"st-francis-of-assisi-feast-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"St. Francis of Assisi Feast Day today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad37034ac200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francis of assisi talking to birds\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad37034ac200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad37034ac200c-115wi\" style=\"width: 101px;\" title=\"Francis of assisi talking to birds\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great St. Francis, talking to the birds. Who doesn&#39;t love him?&#0160; Wouldn&#39;t make much of a President, Senator, journalist, etc, would he? Be a great counselor though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_of_Assisi\">Pope Gregory IX canonized Francis on 16 July 1228. Along with Saint Catherine of Siena, he was designated Patron saint of Italy. He later became associated with patronage of animals and the natural environment, and it became customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October. He is often remembered as the patron saint of animals. In 1219, he went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan to put an end to the conflict of the Crusades.[6] By this point, the Franciscan Order had grown to such an extent that its primitive organizational structure was no longer sufficient. He returned to Italy to organize the Order. Once his community was authorized by the Pope, he withdrew increasingly from external affairs. Francis is also known for his love of the Eucharist.[7] In 1223, Francis arranged for the first Christmas live nativity scene.[8][9][2] According to Christian tradition, in 1224 he received the stigmata during the apparition of Seraphic angels in a religious ecstasy [10] making him the first recorded person in Christian history to bear the wounds of Christ&#39;s Passion.[11] He died during the evening hours of 3 October 1226, while listening to a reading he had requested of Psalm 142 (141). <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the oldest depiction of him, done only two or three years after his death. Already canonized and a fresco!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fresco\" title=\"Fresco\">fresco<\/a> near the entrance of the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benedictine\" title=\"Benedictine\">Benedictine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbey_of_Saint_Scholastica,_Subiaco\" title=\"Abbey of Saint Scholastica, Subiaco\">abbey of Subiaco<\/a>, painted between March 1228 and March 1229. He is depicted without the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stigmata\" title=\"Stigmata\">stigmata<\/a>, but the image is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_image\" title=\"Religious image\">religious image<\/a> and not a portrait.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-1\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad39661d2200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francis oldest edpiction\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad39661d2200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad39661d2200d-250wi\" style=\"width: 240px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Francis oldest edpiction\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great St. Francis, talking to the birds. Who doesn&#39;t love him?&#0160; Wouldn&#39;t make much of a President, Senator, journalist, etc, would he? Be a great counselor though. Pope Gregory IX canonized Francis on 16 July 1228. Along with Saint Catherine of Siena, he was designated Patron saint of Italy. He later became associated with patronage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}