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The prayers of St. Francis
St. Francis is known as the man who was most like Christ, "the first after the only one", the universal brother, a man of peace and reconciliation, the Poverello, the lover of the poor, the troubadour of creation. It is true. Francis of Assisi, however, was first and foremost a mystic, a real contemplative, enamoured with the poor and crucified Christ. Francis was not only a man who prayed, but, as his biographer Thomas of Celano says, he was "a man become prayer". The presence of God transfigured him until He made him "another Christ".