Come and join us tomorrow 4 October at 10.00 a.m. for Morning Prayer and Holy Rosary, celebrating the feast day of St Francis of Assisi. He had a very chequered career up until his imprisonment in Collestrada, but after returning to his worldly life, he then decided to renounce it, joined the poor begging at St Peter's Basilica in Rome, and founded the Franciscan Order, with its brown habit and rope around the waist with three knots symbolising poverty, chastity and obedience. He called all creatures his brothers and sisters, and his Canticle of the Sun is paraphrased in the hymn 'All creatures of our God and King' (NEH 263). Francis was canonised in 1228.