“When you’re in Assisi you also can’t help but learn a little bit more about Francis’s life, and especially what came after it. Francis was born into a wealthy merchant’s family, and as a young man lived the high life in this important city state.
But he also went off to war on behalf of Assisi, and came back from one mission a very changed soul. Today we’d probably say he suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I personally prefer that biblical favourite – he had an epiphany.”