(OSV News) — Each year on Oct. 3, the followers of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) – friars; nuns; laypeople…
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The Franciscan family celebrated the most important events of the life of St Francis of Assisi eight centuries ago: in 2023, the invention of the manger in Greccio; in 2024, the prodigy of wounds; in 2025, the Song of creatures and, finally, in 2026, the “dichose transit”.