NOUN
- (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226)
How To Use Francis of Assisi In A Sentence
- In my memory banks, his photograph is now mutating into a hothouse hybrid of Brad Pitt, Mr Big and St Francis of Assisi. Points of Review
- If anyone were predestined to write an opera on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, it was surely Olivier Messiaen.
- Many of these hermits are also visionaries, an idea which comes out of tales of mystic saints like Teresa of Avila and Francis of Assisi, who were close to real-life Christian shamans.
- Campolo told of how St. Francis of Assisi left the Christian army during the Crusades, went to the tent of a sultan leading the Muslim army and tried to win him to Christ.
- That's when many ministers bless animals for the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi - the patron saint of animals.
- St. Francis of Assisi originally founded the cloister which now encloses a garden and well.
- That's when many ministers bless animals for the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi - the patron saint of animals.
- Kipling's fuzzy-wuzzies"; "the couturier Madeleine Vionnet" put in an unexpected appearance in the same paragraph as Herodotus, Baudelaire and St Francis of Assisi. Top stories from Times Online
- After all, Francis of Assisi and Dominic Guzman, not Innocent III, energized the mendicant movement that swept Europe in the thirteenth century.
- Francis of Assisi is accredited with the focus on the manger, the animals, and the child at Christmas.