{"product_id":"saint-francis-of-assisi-7-day-glass-candle","title":"Saint Francis of Assisi 7 Day Glass Candle","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHe Gave Everything Away. He Talked to Birds. He Walked Into the Sultan’s Court to Ask for Peace. He Is Still the Most Beloved Saint in the World.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGiovanni di Pietro di Bernardone was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi. He had everything; money, status, a future in his father’s trade, the easy life of a young man of means in medieval Italy. And then something happened to him. A voice in a crumbling chapel. A leper on the road whose face he forced himself to kiss. A slow, total, irreversible turning away from everything he had been toward everything he would become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe stood in the public square of Assisi, took off his fine clothes, handed them back to his father, and walked away with nothing. He rebuilt a ruined chapel with his own hands, stone by stone. He preached to birds when people wouldn’t listen, and the birds stayed and listened. He walked into the court of Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the Crusades, unarmed, alone, seeking peace and walked out alive, having been received with honor. He received the wounds of Christ in his hands and feet and side on a mountain in La Verna in 1224, the first recorded stigmatist in Christian history. He died at forty-five, singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEight hundred years later, his Peace Prayer is recited in hospitals and hospices and homes across the world. His feast day fills churches and animal shelters with pets waiting to be blessed. His name is given to a Pope who chose it as a statement of intention. He is beloved by Catholics and Protestants, by secular animal lovers and environmental activists, by people who have never set foot in a church and people who have never left one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSaint Francis of Assisi 7 Day Glass Candle\u003c\/strong\u003e carries the energy of that radical, joyful, all-encompassing love for animals, for the earth, for peace, for the poor, and for the divine that Francis found in every living thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTraditional Petitions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimals and pets — patron of all animals; petitioned for the health, protection, and blessing of beloved creatures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHealing of sick or injured animals — burned when a beloved pet is ill and needs miraculous care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe environment and the natural world — patron of ecology, petitioned for the protection of the earth and all living things\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeace — one of the great saints of peace; his Peace Prayer is among the most beloved in the Christian tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe poor and voluntary simplicity — petitioned by those who serve the poor and those who seek a simpler, more intentional life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReconciliation and rebuilding — for those rebuilding something broken: a relationship, a community, a life, a faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMystical experience and union with the divine — the saint of the stigmata and of radical spiritual transformation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterfaith harmony and understanding — the saint who walked into the Sultan’s court seeking peace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to Work This Candle\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCome to Saint Francis with an open heart and without pretense — he has no patience for performance and infinite patience for sincerity. Write your petition naming what you are asking him to carry: the sick animal, the broken relationship, the peace that is needed, the earth that needs protecting, the simplicity you are seeking. Place it beneath the candle. Dress the top of the glass with Saint Francis oil or a gentle nature-based oil cedar, pine, or a woodland blend that honors his love of the natural world. His colors are brown and gray, the colors of the Franciscan habit. His feast day is October 4th, celebrated worldwide as the Feast of Saint Francis and the Blessing of the Animals, a beautiful day to begin a working with him or to bring a beloved pet to be blessed. Light the candle and, if you know his Peace Prayer, speak it: \u003cem\u003eLord, make me an instrument of your peace.\u003c\/em\u003e It is the most Francis thing you can do. He will hear it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach candle is approximately 8 inches tall and burns for up to 7 days. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KC Conjure \u0026 Botanica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46811625193633,"sku":"KCC-STFRANCIS","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/5583\/0177\/files\/WB-23303_960x960_16e7ccad-fcb0-4fbc-b159-e92be1e5c176.jpg?v=1785798584","url":"https:\/\/kcconjure.com\/products\/saint-francis-of-assisi-7-day-glass-candle","provider":"KC Conjure \u0026 Botanica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}