Saint Francis
Character Key Number:
3774
Display Name:
Saint Francis
Sort Name:
Francis, Saint
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
"Saint Francis" - known as Francis of Assisi, the Catholic friar who founded the Franciscan Order in the early 13th century - wrote the words that Quentin Compson remembers on the first page of his section in The Sound and the Fury in the song "The Canticle of the Sun": "All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Death, From whose embrace no mortal can escape."