That is quite an irony, for a town that was named by Christian (Catholic) missionaries for St. Francis.
Not to argue about where the Catholic church has gone institutionally, but that couldn’t affect a city which has long ago gone utterly secular anyhow. With Silicon Valley, they aren’t thinking of St. Francis, but St. Silicon.
Remember the giant flapdoodle over Ave Maria, Florida? Libs were concerned that a religious name for a town might somehow warp the minds of its’ residents. Corpus Christi, San Fran, Santa Barbara....