Francis Unwavering Commitment to Helping the Needy

There are several examples that highlight Francis’s unwavering commitment to helping the needy and his deep humility and compassion. He once met a nobleman who had fallen into poverty and, moved by pity, gave him his own clothes. On other occasions, Francis gave his mantle to an elderly woman in Celano, to a poor man he met while returning from Siena, and to another man who had just lost his wife. 

Resources: The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul by Thomas of Celano, Second Book, Chapter LIII - LIX (FA:ED II, p. 304 - 306) 

Bonaventure - The Major Legend of Saint Francis, Chapter 1:1-2 (FA:ED II, p. 531-532)