St. Francis of Assisi is among history's more impressive saints: a man of means who took a vow of poverty and treated all of God's creatures equally, whether pontiff, pauper or pigeon. Seeing his hometown helped root the man in his locale: a beautiful hill town in Umbria. Pilgrims from all over visit the church where he first heard his heavenly calling as a reformer and the basilica where frescoes tell his life's story. Assisi's well preserved charm does more than draw tourists. It refreshes them, too.
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