Spend a month in the company of St Francis, with sixty-two reflections to enrich your mornings and evenings. '[Francis received] the unhealed everlasting wounds that heal the world.' - G. K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi Praise for the A Month with series: 'This series helps us to be properly nurtured by the living, radical Christian tradition of faith.' - Mark Oakley, author and Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, London St Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, lived in early thirteenth-century Italy and is known as the patron saint of animals.