Themed images for Saint-Francis-of-Assisi.

Wed, 09/09/2015 - 10:37 - 'Annunciation and Saints' by Lorenzo Monaco - Accademia Florence 09/09/2015
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Mon, 09/07/2015 - 08:48 - St Francis - Detail from Crucifixion fresco by Fra Angelico
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Detail from Crucifixion fresco by Fra Angelico in the Dominican monastery of San Marco, Florence. This image is a depiction of St Francis of Assisi.

Sat, 04/23/2011 - 13:01 - Renaissance stained glass. Beauvais Cathedral, Beauvais, France 23/04/2011
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French renaissance stained glass window by Engrand le Prince, depicting St Francis of Assisi and the wife of the donor Françoise d'Halluin.

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 14:36 - St Francis and Pope Honorius III. Orleans Cathedral France 28/04/20/11
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This stained glass panel depicts Pope Honorius III giving St Francis of Assisi permission to start a monastic order. The panel is the work of Lucien Lobin (c1861).

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 14:35 - St Francis. Orleans Cathedral France 28/04/20/11
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This panel from Orleans Cathedral is by the Lobin Studios (c1862) and shows St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata from a Seraphim.

 

Mon, 07/12/2010 - 10:25 - Stained glass. St. Godard Rouen France 12/07/2010.
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This window depicting St Francis of Assisi shows him recieving the marks of stigmata, when Christ appeared to him as a Seraphim on Mount La Verna.

Other panels show him as an itinerant preacher, meeting with Bishop Guido of Assisi, getting permission to start a religious order from pope Innocent III, and Clare of Assisi becoming inspired to start the female Fransican order of Poor Clares.