Francis Aidan Gasquet, O.S.B. (5 October 1846 at Somers Town, London, England – 5 April 1929 in Rome) was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He was created Cardinal in 1914.
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“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
—St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)