He frames Jesus and Francis as the two saintly husbands of Poverty, which makes radical poverty appear admirable but also exceptional.
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"Okay, so thank you. First of all, I love the fact that you refer to the text, okay? This is really important, guys. We're..."
"...desire almost as a punishment. And even the people, even the saints and the most holy people of all time who denied themselves, they..."
"And so, the greatest saint and the worst criminal are all equally fallen before God. Yes, exactly."
"...the decay of the catholic church and these two princes are saint francis will found the franciscan order who are devoted to poverty and..."
"uh so basically he's a saint obviously and the founder of the franciscan order and and his whole thing is that he's really poor..."
"...saw on a Catholic website. So it was actually about a saint, a former nun, a saint. And her, it was one of her..."
"...jesus that dante recognizes and um when dante talks about uh saint uh francis of assisi right he will conjure up he will help..."
"...florence performance okay also let me ask you this question was saint francis of assisi you know the man who became the founder of..."
"careful about my language um karina says saint petersburg um yeah i i i want to visit both"
"moscow and saint petersburg these are great cities um christy asks what specific reasons do you have to leave china uh what do you..."
"...''May your protection curb his mortal passions. ''See, Beatrice, how many saints with her, ''they join my prayers, they clasp their hands to you.''..."
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