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The Party Boy Who Gave It All Away — St. Francis of Assisi
He was the most popular young man in his town. Wealthy, charming, magnetic — the kind of guy everyone wanted to be around. He dreamed of glory, went to war, and ended up in a dungeon for a year.
He came out completely different.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, host John O'Connor tells the real story of St. Francis of Assisi — not the bird bath in the garden, not the gentle friar in the brown robe. The real one. The radical one. The man who stripped off every piece of clothing in the middle of his hometown, handed them to his father, and walked into the woods singing.
And who — eight…
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