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Aquinas Press – St Francis Novena booklet

Our Aquinas Press Novena book series offers completely illustration nine-day Novena’s with special prayers to ten beloved saints.  In addition we offer Novenas to the Sacred Heart and the Divine Mercy and four Novena books in honour of Our Blessed Mother – all in an appealingly illustrated 24 page format.

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St. Francis of Assisi, O.F.M.
Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy an oil painting by Jusepe de Ribera (1642)
Religious, deacon, confessor and religious founder
Born	1181 – 1182 Assisi , Duchy of Spoleto , Holy Roman Empire
Died	October 3, 1226 (aged 43–45) Assisi, Marche , Papal States ; [ 1 ]
Honored in	Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheran Church Old Catholic Church New Age ecologists
Canonized	July 16, 1228, Assisi, Italy by Pope Gregory IX
Major shrine	Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi
Feast	October 4
Attributes	Tau cross , dove , birds, animals, wolf at feet, Pax et Bonum , Poor Franciscan habit , stigmata
Patronage	animals ; the environment ; Italy ; merchants ; stowaways ; [ 2 ] cub scouts ; San Francisco, California