CultureWhat would Francis of Assisi make of his fame today?

Francis of Assisi renounced wealth and fame for a life as a mendicant friar devoted to poverty, humility, care for the poor and sick, and kinship with nature. Yet his legacy has inspired popes, Dante and ecological activism, while even being appropriated by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime.

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