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Francis was born in Assisi, Italy in 1182. He grew up in a wealthy family. His father was a highly successful cloth merchant and he led a privileged life.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio (December 17, 1936 - April 21, 2025) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

St. Francis of Assisi was an Italian friar who lived in Italy in the 13th century. He lived a life of ascetic poverty and was dedicated to ...

His ascension to the papacy heralded many firsts. Francis was the first Pope from the Americas or the Southern Hemisphere.

Francis is an English, French, German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name of Latin origin. Francis. St. Francis receives the stigmata by Jan Claudius de Cock.

Born in Argentina, Francis was the only Latin American pontiff and first non-European pope in more than 1000 years.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a family of Italian origin, Bergoglio was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958 after recovering from a severe ...