The saint who really does not exploit others, St. Francis

St. Francis (1181-1226) was born in Italy. His father was a successful cloth merchant, making him a rich second generation from an early age. But when he was 18 years old, he suddenly had an epiphany one day, no longer wanting to exploit others, not buying property, not marrying a daughter-in-law, not having children, not going skiing in Switzerland, not riding a horse-drawn carriage, not wearing shoes. And at the age of 25 he was called to be a believer in God.

Every day he knocked on the rice bowl, begging for alms to give him a small piece of bread that he had broken off a whole piece of bread. Sometimes I go to the fields to help and get a small piece of bread. This kind of help is not negotiated in advance, and people can not give it. Before eating, he draws a cross, kisses the bread, and sings hymns to the bread givers, so that those who have managed to earn a large piece of bread can leisurely listen to a hymn he sings at lunchtime. At this time, people from the nearby fields also gathered to listen to the free hymns.

Later, the Pope kissed his feet and people honored him as a saint. After the rise of the Thirteenth Century, the founder of the Franciscans was St. Francis, who advocated that the monks lived in absolute poverty, that no individual or group could own property, and that they went deep into the civil society to provide social assistance.

St. Francis in a State of Oblivion

This painting "St. Francis in a State of Oblivion" is a painting by the painter Bellini who deliberately depicts the life of St. Francis living alone in a deserted suburb, mai vegetarian. In front of a cave, a gate is woven with several tree poles. On the simple desk were scriptures and skeletons, and he was facing nature. The painter said that he was in a state of forgetfulness, and there was nothing wrong with it, because the forgetfulness of religious fanatics is often a perverted reflection of psychological confusion.