38: The Franciscans

Scott and Kevin tell the story of St. Francis of Assisi and the founding and growth of one of the Church’s most prolific religious orders. They meet a lot of other saints along the way, as they travel through the centuries and across the world, from medieval China, to colonial Spanish America, to twentieth-century Poland.  Bonus material includes our hosts’ personal Franciscan connections and, after a long and painful absence from Catholic History Trek, a railroad reference.