Tag: St Francis of Assisi

Today Pope Benedict XVI met the Franciscan families at the Pope’s summer residence. The gathering of friars and sisters in Assisi is to celebrate 800 years of the approval of the Franciscan way of life by Pope Innocent III in 1209

 

May Saint Francis of Assisi intercede for us!

On April 16, 1209, Pope Innocent III orally approved the new way of life of

Saint Francis of Assisi. 

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. 
Saint Francis of Assisi