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          Saint
          Francis of Assisi
          OFM

          A portrait of Saint Francis by Philip Fruytiers

          Founder of the Franciscan Order
          Confessor of the Faith and Stigmatist
          BornGiovanni di Pietro di Bernardone
          1181 or 1182
          Assisi, Duchy of Spoleto, Holy Roman Empire
          Died3 October 1226 (aged approximately 44 years)
          Assisi, Umbria, Papal States
          Venerated in
          Canonized16 July 1228, Assisi, Papal States by Pope Gregory IX
          Major shrineBasilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
          Feast4 October
          AttributesFranciscan habit, birds, animals, stigmata, crucifix, book, and a skull
          PatronageFranciscan Order, animals, merchants, ecology, stowaways, Aguada, Naga, Cebu, General Trias, and Italy
          The oldest surviving depiction of St.

          Francis is a fresconear the entrance of the Benedictineabbey of Subiaco, painted between March