Assisi is famous throughout the world for its favorite son, St. Francis. And our Marianist Brothers took time from their meetings at Via Latina to visit the famous town.
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Brother Thomas, an avid animal lover, tries his touch as the Assisi lion tamer.
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Below Father Garrett (Assistant Provincial) and Brother Michael (Secretray General)pause in Assisi.
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St. Francis put it so well when he said, "
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."