He wrote his "Canticle to the Sun" soon before he died, and the "Fioretti," or little flowers, describe his preaching to the birds.
This man hid out in a cave for a month to avoid his father's wrath after stealing some cloth and selling that and his horse to pay for repairs to the tiny church of St. Damian. Angelus Tancredi, Leo, and Rufinus were this man's noted "Three Companions," who wrote his hagiography, while Rufinus's cousin founded the "Poor Clares," the female analogue to this man's namesake monastic order. He wrote his "Canticle to the Sun" soon before he died, and the "Fioretti," or little flowers, describe his preaching to the birds. FTP who was this Italian saint from Assisi?
This man hid out in a cave for a month to avoid his father's wrath after stealing some cloth and selling that and his horse to pay for repairs to the tiny church of St. Damian.
St. {Francis} of Assisi