The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi is on October 4th, and it is one of my favorite days of the year. While Oscar Wilde called St. Francis the best liked and least emulated of all the saints, still, he inspires me and makes me take stock of what really matters in life. “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” Franco Zeffirelli’s feature film length biography of the saint, does an adequate and accessible job dramatizing all that is important about his story, while the best book I know about him is actually St. Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. I read the book while I was in Italy, and felt I was literally in the company of the saint and his friends when I spent a day in his town. The film always inspires me and I love to see it sometime around the feast day. The best scene is when the pope kisses Francesco’s feet, having already explained that his own enthusiasm has become, “encrusted with the governance of the church.”