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More API/GAMMA/Gamma-Raph/Getty Images March 11 ... taking the name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. Newly elected Pope Francis I speaks to the waiting crowd from the central balcony ...
Photo: Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images A general view of St. Peter's Square during the funeral of Pope Francis, who took the name Francis after St Francis of Assisi. He promoted a more ...
(Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images) After the resignation ... He was also the first to take the name Francis, in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. In a departure from tradition, Francis made his ...
Taking the name Francis after St Francis of Assisi, he promoted a more humble ... (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Faithful join a long line outside St Peter's Square to view the body of ...
This photo, taken from St. Peter’s Basilica, shows the pope’s coffin and some of the crowd during his funeral. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images ... Francis to honor St. Francis of Assisi ...
When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small ... viewers thought these images were the most ...