{"slug": "francis-of-assisi", "label": "Francis of Assisi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q676555", "qid": "Q676555", "description": "Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1182, 1520], "span_label": ["1182 CE", "1520 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "franciscans", "label": "Franciscans", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "catholicism", "label": "Catholicism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christmas", "label": "Christmas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-innocent-iii", "label": "Pope Innocent III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franciscan", "label": "Franciscan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1182, "year_label": "1182 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362172586#Births", "title": "1182", "revid": 1362172586, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1210, "year_label": "1210 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Innocent III allows the formation of the mendicant order of Francis of Assisi, to begin the Order of Friars Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321284058#Religion", "title": "1210", "revid": 1321284058, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1219, "year_label": "1219 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September", "text": "September – Francis of Assisi, an Italian preacher, arrives in the Crusader camp and introduces Catholicism in Egypt. He seeks permission from Pelagius to visit Al-Kamil. After an initial refusal, he sends Francis under a flag of truce to Faraskur. Al-Kamil receives him courteously and offers him many gifts. He accepts a death-bed baptism, and is escorted back to the Crusader camp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345005371#Fifth_Crusade", "title": "1219", "revid": 1345005371, "section": "Events › By place › Fifth Crusade"}}, {"year": 1223, "year_label": "1223 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – Father Francis of Assisi (Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone), founder of the Order of the Franciscans with in the Roman Catholic Church, begins the tradition of celebrating Christmas with a nativity scene. Having received permission from Pope Honorius III, Francis arranges for a display in a cave near the Italian city of Greccio, with the representation of the events associated with the birth of Jesus Christ as described in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke, using real people and animals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336497375#October–December", "title": "1223", "revid": 1336497375, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1224, "year_label": "1224 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14 – Francis of Assisi, while praying on the mountain of La Verna during a 40-day fast, has a vision, as a result of which he receives the stigmata. Brother Leo, who is with Francis at the time, leaves a clear and simple account of this event, the first definite account of the phenomenon of stigmata.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561506#July_–_September", "title": "1224", "revid": 1369561506, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1228, "year_label": "1228 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16 – Saint Francis of Assisi is canonized by Gregory IX.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360747311#Religion", "title": "1228", "revid": 1360747311, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1262, "year_label": "1262 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – Giles of Assisi, companion of Francis of Assisi (b. 1190)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275696322#Deaths", "title": "1262", "revid": 1275696322, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1520, "year_label": "1520 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Franciscan friar Matteo Bassi is inspired to return to the primitive life of solitude and penance, as practiced by St. Francis, giving rise to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367307705#Date_unknown", "title": "1520", "revid": 1367307705, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}