St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace. He’s been a key inspiration for the pope — who chose Francis as his papal name. As Francis remains hospitalized, pilgrims flock to seek Franciscan spirituality in the central Italian hilltop town of Assisi.
Who’s St. Francis, whose love for the poor, creation, and peace inspires Pope Francis ?El papa está estable pero seguirá usando máscara respiratoria, dice el Vaticano Religion As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling pneumonia, hundreds of pilgrims continued to make their way to this hilltop town to pray at the tomb of St. Francis, the hometown medieval saint whom the pontiff chose as his papal name. A votive statue of Italy ’s patron saint, St.
“The life of St. Francis teaches the way to holiness is giving up yourself, getting rid of things that hold us back in our life here, and just offer ourselves to the Lord,” said the Rev. Paul Vu, who was visiting in early March with a group of 50 Vietnamese-American parishioners from Santa Ana, California.Pope stable with no new respiratory crises but will sleep with ventilation mask, Vatican says
For Assisi’s current bishop, the Rev. Domenico Sorrentino, St. Francis’ renunciation of material encumbrances also signaled his love of creation and of peace. “Assisi is the place to pray for peace in the world and inside of ourselves,” said Elizabeth Nuñez, a Passionist sister from Colombia who was there in pilgrimage on a recent weekend.After being elected, a pope chooses a name to adopt for his papacy. Jorge Mario Bergoglio picked Francis in 2013.
This year will mark the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ celebrated “canticle of creatures,” where he praises God for the sun, the moon and other natural elements he refers to as brothers and sisters.Dora Pell, a 75-year-old pilgrim from England, went walking in the woods around Assisi beloved by St. Francis and called it as moving as sitting by his tomb in the Basilica of St. Francis on the edge of town.
They were spared destruction in the 1997 earthquake that hit the region, killing four people in the basilica itself.
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