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The rough brown habit, the knotted rope at his waist, a golden halo resting above a face without pretense. Two small birds perched in his open hands, perfectly still, as if they already know they are safe there. Around him, tall leaves and delicate berries rendered in deep teal and gold, the whole of creation leaning gently inward, as if listening. He preached to the birds when people would not listen. They stayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis begged for stones to rebuild churches with his own hands. He cared for lepers when no one else would go near them. He stood before a sultan during the Crusades and offered friendship instead of argument. He received the stigmata, the wounds of Christ, in his hands and feet and side. He wrote the Canticle of the Sun, one of the oldest poems in the Italian language, praising Brother Wind and Sister Water and Mother Earth. 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