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At Thessalonika the early Christians were described as the men who had "turned the world upside down". Whatever was meant by this phrase, it would certainly apply to St. Francis, for he reversed all the usual values and lived in what might almost be called a "looking-glass" world in which the things most to be desired were things like poverty and contempt, cold and hunger, suffering and death. Well might one say that Francis "turned the world and its standards upside down". But which is the right way up?
-John R. H. Moorman, Saint Francis of Assisi
