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St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis and Scenes from His Life, tempera on panel by Bonaventura Berlinghieri, 1235; in the Church of San Francesco, Pescia, Italy.
St. Francis of Assisi was the son of Pietro di Bernardone, a cloth merchant, and a lady named Pica, who may have been of French origin.1