PATRON SAINT OF ANIMALS

St. Francis of
Assisi
 Prayer of Saint
Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your
peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy
 Prayer of Saint
Francis
O Divine Master, grant that I may
Not so much seek to be consoled as to
console
To be understood, as to understand
To be loved, as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
And it's in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it's in dying that we are born to
Eternal Life
Amen
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He is the patron saint of

animals and the environment.
Saint Francis of Assisi was
WHO IS ST. renowned for drinking and
partying in his youth. After
FRANCIS OF fighting in a battle between
ASSISI ? Assisi and Perugia, Francis was
captured and imprisoned for
ransom.
WHAT HAPPENED
WHEN HE WAS IN
JAIL ?

He spent nearly a
year in prison and
started to began
receiving visions
from God.
Later in life, Francis
reportedly received a
vision that left him
with the stigmata of
Christ.

PEO PLE W H O H AV E S TIG MATA E XHIB IT WOUND S TH AT

DUPL ICAT E OR RE PRE S ENT T HOS E TH AT JE S US IS S AID TO
H AVE E NDU RED DURI NG H IS CRUCI FIXION.
 The Franciscan Order

FRANC I S L IVE D HI S LI FE OF POVERTY AND

PR EAC HED TO P EOP LE ABOUT TH E LI FE OF
J ES U S C HRI S T, P E OP L E BEG AN TO FOLLOW
H IM . HE HAD ONE BAS I C R ULE WHI C H WAS
"T O FOLLOW T HE T EAC HI NGS OF OUR
LORD J ES U S C HR IS T AND TO WALK I N H IS
FOOTS TE P S ".
WH Y I S HE T HE PAT RON S AINT
OF AN IMALS ?
Francis is the Patron Saint of
Animals and of nature because of his
way of seeing God through all things
created, which led him to address
every created being as his Brother or
Sister.

PATRON SAINT
OF ANIMALS
Additional W HEN IS ST HOW D I D ST
Information F RANCI S OF FRANCI S OF
AS SIS I' S AS SIS I D IE?
BI RT H DAY ?
The final years of
His birthday is Francis' life were
somewhere in 1181 marked largely by
and he dies on illness and physical
October 3, 1226 discomfort, including
the first recorded case
He is also
of stigmata in Christian
canonized on Jluy
history.
16 1228
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