Statue Erected by: Tipton Grow and Glow Garden Club.
County of Statue: Moniteau County.
Erected in memoriy of passed members of the Grow and Glow Garden Club.
Memorial Text:
In Memory
MRS. MILDRED WISDOM MRS. ZELLA HAYS
MRS. ISABELLA WOODS MRS. BESSIE KASPER
MRS. ROSS HARDY MRS. LAURA MARTIN
Time Line on St. Francis:
1182 AD - St. Francis of Assisi was born in Umbria in the year 1182. He was a child every father hoped ... Francis of Assisi lived about eight hundred years ago.
1208 - The organized work of the followers of St. Francis of Assisi began in AD 1208. The primary goal of the order was that it should benefit all men. The order of St. Francis was to be involved historically in almost all the major Spanish enterprises of discovery, development, and civilization in the New World. By the middle of the sixteenth century when Carlos III ascended the throne of Spain, Russian fur trading ships were already threatening the northern coasts.
1209 - This great founder established his first community in 1209. The rule 'is very austere.' There are several religious bodies following the rule of St. Francis of Assisi. 2 Among them are the Franciscan Fathers (0.FM Order of Friars Minor), the Capuchin Friars Minor (0.M. Cap. Order of Minor Capuchins, or 0.SFC Order of St. Francis, Capuchins), the Minor Conventuals (0.MC), the Franciscan Brothers (0.SF), and the Fathers of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis (T.0.E.). This great founder established his first community in 1209.
1219 - An icon representing St. Francis of Assisi's meeting with Sultan Malek al-Kamil in 1219, seeking to end the war between Christians and Muslims, will be blessed this afternoon by Sisters of St. Francis and Imam Farooq Abo-Elzahab and other representatives of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo. The icon is a triptych by Franciscan Friar Robert Lentz depicting a visit by St. Francis, the patron saint of the Sylvanian Franciscan sisters, to Egypt during the Fifth Crusades.
1221 - The Secular Franciscan Order was established by St. Francis of Assisi in 1221. The Secular portion of the order is comprised of laity, married and single, as well as diocesan clergy, living in the regular world yet seeking to pattern their lives after Jesus Christ in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi. "The rule and life of the Secular Franciscans is this: to observe the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by following the example of St. Francis of Assisi.
1223 - The origin of the nativity scene is credited to St. Francis of Assisi. In 1223, St. Francis was visiting the town of Grecio, near Rome. Grecio was a small town built on a mountainside overlooking a picturesque valley. St. Francis realized that the Franciscan chapel would be too small to hold the townspeople for Midnight Mass. So he found a niche in the rock near the center of town and made it an altar.
1224 - One of the best- known of these is Monte Verna, just outside Varallo in the Italian Alps, which was the remote location chosen by St. Francis of Assisi for forty days of fasting and prayer in 1224. The location features some impressive rock formations and a century after St. Francis prayed here a set of stories called The Little Flowers of St. Francis recalled that "it was revealed to him that those clefts [in the rocks]... had been miraculously made at the hour of the passion.
1226 - The present year is the seventh centenary of St. Francis of Assisi, who died at sunset on October 3, 1226, lying naked on the ground in a small cell of wattle close to the Portiuncula outside Assisi.
1776 - ...Founded on June 29, 1776, and formally dedicated on October 9, 1776, the mission was originally named for San Francisco de Asis (Saint Francis of Assisi), the founder of the Franciscan order. Though the little mission became the namesake for the city of San Francisco. it would, itself, be known popularly as "Mission Dolores" for the Atroyo de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores.