BUON FRESCO

St Francis of Assisi was the saint who humanised sainthood. He was a man with an ordinary body and ordinary desires. As Tacita Dean writes, 'He rolled naked in the snow to quell his urges and trod the land on paths and roads that are still wending their way throug h the hills and forests of Umbria today. His concerns are contemporary: his love of the earth is ecology, his care for its creature s, animal welfare, and his understanding of his fellow humanity is modern-day social science. He is the saint whom mankind can reali stically a...[Read more]