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title: "St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226): Original name Giovanni di Bernadone, Italian monk; founder of the Franciscan order of friars. He is remembered for his humility and love for all creation and according to legend he received the stigmata (1224)."
url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2616-history-renaissance-st-francis.html"
date: "2026-11-06T01:46:47+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

![St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-renaissance-st-francis.png)
 Original name Giovanni di Bernadone, Italian monk; founder of the Franciscan order of friars. He is remembered for his humility and love for all creation and according to legend he received the stigmata (1224). Feast day Oct.4. **Quotes:**

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it.

*- Quoted in the Life by St.Bonaventura*

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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