Feast Day: April 16
Born: 7 January 1844 at Lourdes, France
Died: 16 April 1879, Nevers, France
Canonized: December 8, 1933, Rome by Pope Pius XI
Patron of: Sick people, poverty, the family, Lourdes, shepherds
Sunday, April 16
Liturgical Color: White
On this day in 1209, St. Francis of
Assisi and 12 companions appeared
before Pope Innocent III. They
requested and received approval for
the Orders of the Friars Minor thus
beginning the Franciscan order.