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Rome is a mass of layers, the physical form of different time periods still present in the walls and streets, and when you study them enough to know what you are really looking at, they reach back so staggeringly far, through so many lifetimes, that if you let yourself think seriously a...
Saint Francis of Assisi was the founder of the Franciscan orders of the Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. Clare (with St. Clare of Assisi(, and the lay Third Order. He was a leader of the movement of evangelical poverty in the early 13th century an
of the rule of one of the existing orders. It was, perhaps, at this time that Dominic metSt. Francis of Assisi(though the meeting may not have taken place until 1221), and the friendship of the two saints is a strong tradition in both theFranciscanandDominicanorders. In the summer of ...