San Damiano Cross – Franciscan Cross – Crucifixion – Catholic Gift Boy saints and they say

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December 9 in the East

(source: Wellcome Library - London)

The fruits of his life's work didn't start happening until after he died

San Damiano Cross – Franciscan Cross – Crucifixion – Catholic Gift Boy saints and they say"It Is Finished" James Tissot The San Damiano Cross is one of the most famous in the world, but not everyone knows the story behind it. Painted around 1100 A. D. by an anonymous Umbrian artist, a copy of it hung in a rundown wayside chapel a couple of miles outside of Assisi, Italy. A young man was praying before it one day when suddenly it because alive and spoke to him. "Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into