 His family's house still stands in Assisi to this day.Bernard received his evangelical calling in the spring of 1208, when he and Francis had recourse to the Sortes Sanctorum in the church of San Nicolò.After hearing Mass, and praying until terce...the priest, at the request of St. Francis, took the missal, and having made the sign of the most holy cross, opened it three times in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.