The Franciscan order was founded by St. Francis of Assisi in the early 13th century in Italy. Other important figures were St. Clare of Assisi, who founded the Poor Clares order for women on the basis of St. Francis’s example, and St. Bonaventure, sometimes called the second founder of the order.
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