Adopting absolute poverty as his ideal, he started preaching the Gospel and healing the sick. In 1209, he founded the Franciscan Order.Many of his disciples became Priests, but he remained as a Brother.
In 1224, while Francis was praying on Mount Alvenia, the five wounds resembling those suffered by jesus, the stigmata, appeared on his body.Two years later in 1226, Francis died in Portiuncula Chapel, near Assisi. He was canonized in 1228.
