It is 1228 when Pope Gregory IX proclaims Francesco Santo, commissioning Tommaso da Celano to write his biography, a fundamental Franciscan Source together with the Fioretti and the writings of Bonaventura da Bagnoregio…

Born in Assisi in 1181, or perhaps 1182, raised by his father Pietro di Bernardone between pleasures and riches, he soon moves away from it. Moved by the miseries of others, he leaves his father’s house to sell everything and give the proceeds to the poor. The father asks him for the restitution of all goods and Francesco happily strips off everything.

Emblem of the traveler and “spouse” of Poverty, he begins to travel and preach, in the company of the first who followed him and whose number is growing. For these Francis wrote a first Rule, approved orally by Innocent III and confirmed with Bull in 1223 by Honorius III.