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Francis of Assisi - (Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis, Italian: Francesco d'Assisi, Giovanni Francesco di Pietro Bernardone, 1181 or 1182 - October 3, 1226) - Catholic saint, founder of the mendicant order named after him - the Franciscan Order (1209). He marks a turning point in the history of the ascetic ideal, and therefore a new era in the history of Western monasticism. He is artistically and symbolically depicted in a brown monastic robe, belted with a rope with three knots, symbols of the three vows he made: poverty, chastity and obedience, and having stigmata (the wounds of Christ): on the palms, feet and under the rib. That's right. Echo of Moscow. Historian Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya tells the story.