The Franciscan Saints and Blesseds

Who are the Franciscan Saints?

Simply put, all the great minds of the Church, all the Doctors and Theologians and Philosophers, all the movers and shakers of this world, have never come up with a better mousetrap, and most likely, never will. The Lord worked through a simple, humble, meager giant!

The little town of Assisi has changed over the centuries. The entire original Fraternity of Francis and the Portiuncola has been enclosed inside a large Basilica at Santa Maria degli Angeli. There are hotels and restaurants, and railroad tracks, and a lot of noise from the cars and buses that frequent the road up the hill to Assisi. But as you look at the panorama of Assisi, two things are etched in the sky. On the one side is the Basilica of St. Francis, and on the other side, the Basilica of St. Clare. One gets the impression that they’re actually looking at each other.

And if you stay up late one night, until after all the automobiles have stopped running, and all the people have gone to bed, if there’s a blanket of quiet all around you; and you listen intently, you might just hear the two of them, Francis and Clare, singing together, very softly, these simple, powerful praises to Our Lord Jesus.

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the greatest Catholic Saints.

His legacy is the Franciscan Order which has produced many Saints and Blesseds known as the Franciscan Saints.