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Q. Most people today don't know about the real St. Francis. What can we learn from him about accepting people?

A. He honored all men; that is, he not only loved but respected them all. What gave him extraordinary personal power was this: that from the pope to the beggar, from the sultan of Syria in his pavilion to the ragged robbers crawling out of the wood, there was never a man who looked into those brown burning eyes without being certain that Francis Bernadone was really interested in him, that he was being valued and taken seriously. … He treated the whole mob of men as a mob of kings.

—G. K. Chesterton was an English journalist early this century whose books ranged from the Father Brown detective tales to theology.

Credits: Adapted from—St. Francis of Assisi (Doubleday, 1957)

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