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Definition of St. Francis

1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226).

2. Noun. A tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of St. Francis

St. Christopher St. Christopher-Nevis St. Cloud St. Crispin St. Dabeoc's heath St. David St. Denis St. Dominic St. Edward the Confessor St. Edward the Martyr

St. Elias Mountains St. Elias Range St. Elmo's fire St. Elmo's fires St. Eustatius St. Francis (current term) St. Francis River St. George St. George's St. George's Cross

St. George's Day St. Gregory I St. Gregory of Nazianzen St. Ignatius St. Ignatius of Loyola St. James St. James the Apostle St. Jerome St. John

Literary usage of St. Francis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1881)
"St. Francis OF ASSIST. Bv ELLA F. MOSBY. St. Francis lived in Italy in the thirteenth century, and founded the order of friars called the Franciscans. ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"SOME THOUGHTS ON St. Francis. AN English poet (we were told not long ago), on being asked by a friend, "What is it in Dante's face that is wanting in ..."

3. Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography by Johannes Jørgensen (1912)
"It lies in the appearance on the scene of a manuscript that in various ways crowded upon, even overshadowed all early biographies of St. Francis — the ..."

4. Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography by Johannes Jørgensen (1912)
"It lies in the appearance on the scene of a manuscript that in various ways crowded upon, even overshadowed all early biographies of St. Francis — the ..."

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