{
    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "francis_of_assisi",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/francis-of-assisi/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Francis of Assisi",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "Francis of Assisi makes voluntary poverty a practical criticism of possession and rank. His rules, letters and canticle bind prayer to honest work, mercy, fraternity and care for vulnerable people and the created world.",
    "body": "Francis died at Assisi during the night of 3 to 4 October 1226. The envelope ends there and does not turn later canonization, biographies, Franciscan debates or modern religious language into his memory.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 1181/1182-1226",
        "era": "Middle Ages",
        "distance": "about 800–845 years ago",
        "age_at_death": 45
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "detail": "Early Franciscan Christian spirituality",
        "labels": [
            "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
            "Early Franciscan Christian spirituality"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": 1226,
        "display": "1226 CE",
        "reason": "Francis died at Assisi during the night of 3 to 4 October 1226. The envelope ends there and does not turn later canonization, biographies, Franciscan debates or modern religious language into his memory."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 2,
        "passages": 23,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "it"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 2
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Assisi",
            "period": "c. 1181/1182-1226",
            "description": "Traditional birthplace and place of death.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rome",
            "period": "1209/1210 and 1223",
            "description": "Traditional setting for approvals of the early form and Later Rule.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Collestrada / Perugia",
            "period": "1202-1203",
            "description": "Captured after the Assisi militia was defeated at Collestrada and held for about a year.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Spoleto",
            "period": "1204-1206",
            "description": "A conversion episode is placed here by the source chronology as a transmitted vision.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Damietta",
            "period": "1219",
            "description": "Arrival during the Fifth Crusade and peaceful meeting with Sultan al-Kamil.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fonte Colombo",
            "period": "1223",
            "description": "Drafting setting for the definitive Rule according to the source chronology.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Greccio",
            "period": "24-25 December 1223",
            "description": "Documented setting of the Nativity commemoration.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "La Verna",
            "period": "August-September 1224",
            "description": "Lent of Saint Michael and the transmitted stigmata episode; two autograph texts are associated with the stay.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rieti valley",
            "period": "1225",
            "description": "Travel through the valley for attempted treatment of a serious eye disease.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Siena",
            "period": "April-May 1226",
            "description": "He dictated the brief Testament of Siena while his health worsened.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Cortona",
            "period": "1226",
            "description": "Transferred to the Celle di Cortona during the final illness.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/francescanea/chronology-of-francis-clare-and-sources/"
        }
    ],
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}