A photo of the original tunic wore by St Francis from the excellent 'Portiuncula - The Little Portion' website dedicated to the life and writings of St Francis of Assisi.
'But when on a certain day the Gospel was read in the church, how the Lord sent his disciples out to preach, the holy man of God...immediately put off his shoes from his feet, put aside the staff from his hands, was content with one tunic, and exchanged his leather girdle for a small cord. He designed for himself a tunic that bore a likeness to the cross...'Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
CHAPTER IX
Wasn't his father in the "rag trade"?
ReplyDeleteSoft furnishings, curtains and the like...so yes. I believe Francis threw them out of the window one day and his dad went ballistic.
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