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Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

Francis of Assisi

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Francis of Assisi
Died: 1226
Died: October 3
Catholic Deacon
Friar Franciscan
Poet
Saint
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone
St. Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi
San Francisco de Asís
San Francesco d'Assisi
Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone
von Assisi
Saint Franz
von Assisi
Saint Franziskus
San Francisco de Asis
Saint Francis
Everything
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St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. I would finish hoeing my garden, he replied.
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Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
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Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.
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