These three works form the chief sources of the saint's life and the beginnings of the Franciscan Order which he founded in 1212. Born at Assisi in 1182, St Fra

Anecdotes relate stories from the life of St. Francis of Assisi, including his sermon to the birds, his healing of a leper, and his conversion of the Sultan of

This collection of folk tales, legends, and narratives about the life of Francis of Assisi and his followers appeared about seventy-five years after the saint�