WHI-Chap20-St. Francis of Assissi
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St. Francis of Assisi was a reformer in Italy from the 1100s-1200s who tried to fix the church because he believed the church had became too materialistic and secular. He began orders of mendicants known as Franciscan friars. Mendicants were priests who gave up all possessions and traveled, preaching and begging to those they traveled to. Mendicants also persuaded heretics to return to the Christian church and were especially popular in cities. St. Francis didn't want to destroy the church, but fix it.
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