This bronze sculpture of St. Francis of Assisi and creation was purchased in Germany and began to adorn the front entrance of St Francis Convent in 1957. St Francis experienced every creature as his sister or brother because God was his Father. Shortly before he died, St Francis created a poem called the “Canticle of the Sun” in which he invites Brother Sun, Sister Moon and stars, Brother Wind, air, every kind of weather, Sister Water, Brother Fire and Sister Mother Earth with her colored flowers and herbs to help him “Praise and bless God, give God thanks and serve God with great humility.”
In 1999, the Sisters of St Francis of Assisi brought this image into the times in which we now live through embracing “The Sacred Web of Life” in which we state: All creation, from the initial creative event to the arrival of humans, is a single, interconnected and interdependent whole…Creation is the primary revelation and each being reveals something of the Divine…We believe we are to relate to Earth, to one another and indeed to the Cosmos, in mutually sustaining ways …

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