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St. Francis Statues - Patron Saint of Animals

Catholic Family Catalog offers a beautiful line of St. Francis statues that are classical in nature; everything from Italian imports, to small devotional size, to indoor outdoor statues for your garden, to institutional church size St. Francis statues. We have also included St. Francis related items on this page for your perusal.

St. Francis Statue With Birds - 10 Inch
St. Francis Statue With Birds - 10 Inch
$44.00
STATUES-FRANCIS-LA-622
St. Francis With Birds Outdoor Garden Statue - 20 Inch - Resin
St. Francis With Birds Outdoor Garden Statue - 20 Inch - Resin
$54.00
ST-FRANCIS-OUTDOOR-STATUES-HF309480

Feast Day: October 4th

St. Francis, the son of a merchant of Assisi, was born in that city in 1182. Chosen by God to be a living manifestation to the world of Christ's poor and suffering life on earth, he was early inspired with a high esteem and burning love of poverty and humiliation. The thought of the Man of Sorrows, Who had not where to lay His head, filled him with holy envy of the poor, and constrained him to renounce the wealth and worldly station which he abhorred. The scorn and hard usage which he met with from his father and townsmen when he appeared among them in the garb of poverty were delightful to him. "Now," he exclaimed, "I can say truly, 'Our Father Who art in heaven.'" But divine love burned in him too mightily not to kindle like desires in other hearts. Many joined themselves to him, and were constituted by Pope Innocent III. into a religious Order, which spread rapidly throughout Christendom. St. Francis, after visiting the East in the vain quest of martyrdom, spent his life like his Divine Master—now in preaching to the multitudes, now amid desert solitudes in fasting and contemplation. During one of these retreats he received on his hands, feet, and side the print of the five bleeding wounds of Jesus. With the cry, "Welcome, sister Death," he passed to the glory of his God October 4, 1226.

Excerpt from Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Brothers. ed. , 1894


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