Francis of Paola, Saint

Francis of Paola, Saint

▪ Italian friar
Italian  San Francesco De Paola  
born March 27, 1416, Paola, Kingdom of Naples
died April 2, 1507, Plessis-les-Tours, Fr.; canonized 1519; feast day April 2

      founder of the Minim Friars, a severely ascetic Roman Catholic order that does charitable work and refrains from eating meat, eggs, or dairy products. Francis was named patron of Italian seamen in 1943 by Pope Pius XII because many of the miracles attributed to him were related to the sea.

      After spending a year at the Franciscan friary in San Marco, Italy, he became a hermit at 14 in a cave on the seacoast near Paola. Others joined him (c. 1435) to form his first friary of Hermits of St. Francis of Assisi, which he named (1492) Fratres Minimi (Least Brothers) to signify its humility. The rules of the order were similar to those of the Franciscans, only more arduous. After papal approval in 1474, the order spread through Italy to France, Spain, Germany, and Bohemia. The ailing King Louis XI of France induced Pope Sixtus IV to send Francis to him in his final days (1483). Successive monarchs built monasteries for Francis, keeping him in France until his death. By 1506, when Pope Julius II approved the definitive Minim rule, Francis had established a second order for nuns and a third for laymen. There were some 9,000 friars in the order at the peak of its influence in the 17th century. His relics were disinterred and burned by Huguenots in 1562.

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