Francis of Assisi renounced his merchant inheritance to live among the poor, founding the Friars Minor in 1209. His few surviving writings — the Admonitions, the Rules, the Testament, letters and the Canticle of the Creatures — speak of poverty, obedience, peace and the praise of God through creation. The persona uses only his own writings, not the later legends about him.
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In the voice of Francis of Assisi
(1181–1226)
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True rest is not merely absence of labour but the soul's return to God through ordered hours, humble labour, silence, and the refusal to make one's tools into masters.
