# Francis of Assisi (@francis-of-assisi)

Francis of Assisi (c.1181–1226) was an Italian religious founder whose embrace of poverty, peace, and care for creation renewed medieval Christianity.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Francis of Assisi's public record._

## Topics

- [Peace and Creation](/@francis-of-assisi/peace-and-creation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Conversion and Poverty](/@francis-of-assisi/conversion.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [A New Religious Movement](/@francis-of-assisi/movement.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20100127.html
- blog: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fran/hd_fran.htm
- blog: https://ofm.org/en/who-we-are/saint-francis.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "francis-of-assisi", "question": "…"}`.