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This book narrates the story of San Francesco d'Assisi, an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, and preacher who founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the Women's Order of St. Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis for men and women not able to live the lives of itinerant preachers, followed by his canonization and cult.
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