This luminous altarpiece, painted by the Camaldolese monk Lorenzo Monaco, depicts the Annunciation flanked by Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Anthony Abbot, Proculus, and Francis. A delicate beam of light descends from heaven, carrying the dove of the Holy Spirit toward the Virgin, who receives the angel’s message in serene humility.
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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.
French renaissance stained glass window by Engrand le Prince, depicting St Francis of Assisi and the wife of the donor Françoise d'Halluin.
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).
This two-light panel depicts St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata from a Seraphim. In the right light, St Francis stands in his brown habit, hands raised in reverent awe as rays of divine light descend upon him, marking the sacred wounds of Christ.
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.