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‘He loved with an especial warmth and tenderness those creatures that do set forth by the likeness of their nature the holy gentleness of Christ,’ St. Bonaventure wrote of St. Francis.

COMMENTARY: A few lessons for the feast of St. Francis, patron saint of animals