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Featured companion · Feast day October 4
Read Jonah with Saint Francis.
Francis knew what it meant to let God overturn a comfortable life. His story is a fitting place to begin Jonah—a short, searching book about conversion, mercy, and the people we would rather avoid.
- Lived
- c. 1181–1226
- From
- Assisi, Italy
- Paired with
- The Book of Jonah
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