# Francis of Assisi

- Id: `francis_of_assisi`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/francis-of-assisi/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `72d34424bba65827f110dadeeae29472842caa04d79af10e72970c7b24db81b5`

## 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.

## Overview

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

```json
{
    "display": "c. 1181/1182-1226",
    "era": "Middle Ages",
    "distance": "about 800–845 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 45
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Early Franciscan Christian spirituality",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Early Franciscan Christian spirituality"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 23,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "it"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 2
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "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/"
    }
]
```