Gifts & Decors BS-31 Bronze Unisex Statue sku-347982457

Gifts & Decors BS-31 is a 28.5" tall statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and nature, in Bronze, listed as Unisex under Restored Tools. It is an aluminum metal figurine for home or garden display. SKU: sku-347982457. UPC: 636676553627. Saint Francis, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone in 1181/1182, was the son of a prosperous cloth merchant in Assisi. After a wealthy youth and service as a soldier for his town, a vision on his way to war in 1204 led him back to Assisi. On a pilgrimage to Rome, he joined the poor and begged at St. Peter’s, then embraced poverty. He preached and gathered followers, establishing the men’s Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, also called the enclosed Order of Poor Clares, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis, also known as the Third Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance. Pope Innocent III approved the order in 1210. Francis traveled to Egypt in 1219 to try to convert the Sultan, then returned to Italy to reorganize the growing community and gradually withdrew from administration after papal endorsement. He arranged the first Christmas nativity scene in 1223 and received the stigmata in 1224, the first recorded instance of wounds resembling those of Christ’s Passion. He died on October 3, 1226, while preaching Psalm 141.You may also like Gifts & Decors Mermaid Restored Tools sku-630840809.