Oct 4
2016
The Story of St. Francis
The man who would become St. Francis was born the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in the city of Assisi. When the boy was born, his mother asked that the he be named Giovanni, after John the Baptist, for she had great hopes that her son would grow to become a man of God, perhaps even a priest. The boy's father wanted nothing to do with such religious nonsense. He defied his wife and had the boy named Francesco, which means "free one."