Giovanni Minio or Mincio, of Morrovalle or Murrovale was an Italian Franciscan who became Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, cardinal-bishop of Porto, Protector of the Order of Friars Mino
Giovanni Mincio da Morrovalle
Francis of Assisi
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Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of po
Giovanni Mincio da Morrovalle
…Minors (1307) and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1311). According to Giorgio Vasari, it was Mincio who commissioned Giotto for his frescoes of Francis of Assisi…
A painting of Saint Francis by Philip Fruytiers
The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis is a fresco near the entrance of the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229. He is depicted without the stigmata, but the image is a religious image and not a portrait.
São Francisco das Chagas, painted by Ducarmo Teles
The Piccolino Chapel, Francis' legendary birthplace