St Francis – Atlanta Botanical Garden - Atlanta, GA
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This statue of St Francis is located outside the walled garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Atlanta, GA.
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Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/10/2009
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This statue of St Francis is located outside the walled garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Atlanta, GA.
The founder of the Franciscan Order of Monks, and the patron saint of animals.
Artist Julian Hoke Harris
Donated to the garden in 1992.
Source of the following: Wikipedia (
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Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco Bernardone; born 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226) was a friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.
He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and Italy, and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of 4 October.
Who Was St. Francis?
by Leonard Foley, O.F.M. (
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Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a mite of self-importance.
Serious illness brought the young Francis to see the emptiness of his frolicking life as leader of Assisi's youth. Prayer—lengthy and difficult—led him to a self-emptying like that of Christ, climaxed by embracing a leper he met on the road. It symbolized his complete obedience to what he had heard in prayer: "Francis! Everything you have loved and desired in the flesh it is your duty to despise and hate, if you wish to know my will. And when you have begun this, all that now seems sweet and lovely to you will become intolerable and bitter, but all that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy."
From the cross in the neglected field-chapel of San Damiano, Christ told him, "Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down." Francis became the totally poor and humble workman.
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Atlanta Botanical Garden (
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1345 Piedmont Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
(404) 876-5859
Admission Information
Adults $15.00
Seniors $12.00
Children ages 3 to 17 $12.00
Children under 3 Free
Garden Members Free
CityPass Youth $49.00
CityPass Adult $69.00