2023-09-25 02:00:00
By Central Editorial
September 25, 2023 / 12:29 AM
“We must do nothing else but be diligent in following the will of God and in pleasing Him in all things,” said Saint Francis of Assisi, who received the gift of the stigmata and was declared “Patron of the cultivators of ecology.” ” by Saint John Paul II in 1979.
Pope Francis, who took his name after this saint and who has published his encyclical Laudato Si’ on ecology, highlighted during his visit to Assisi in 2013 that Saint Francis “bears witness to the respect for everything that God has created and as He has created it, without experimenting with creation to destroy it.”
Although Saint Francis of Assisi is often highlighted for his love and closeness to nature, and his love and great compassion for the poor, the saint of Assisi was also a great mystic who received the stigmata of Christ, the same wounds. of passion.
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