Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d'Assisi born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone but nicknamed Francesco ("the Frenchman") by his father 1181/1182 – October 3 1226) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. ISBN 978-1-57659-127-7
Saint Francis of Assisi by John R. Main writings

Canticum Fratris Solis or Laudes Creaturarum Canticle of the Sun.

Peter's Basilica. He lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man even fighting as a soldier for Assisi. Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d'Assisi born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone but nicknamed Francesco ("the Frenchman") by his father 1181/1182 – October 3 1226) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.