St. Francis of Assisi’s call to a religious vocation resulted in his becoming a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms and lived and worked among regular people in society. He was not a monk but what was he?

St. Francis of Assisi was known as a Friar as he was a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms that lived and worked among regular people in society.

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