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Francis of Assisi was formally sued for fabric theft

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Before he was chatting with birds, he was committing grand larceny against his own family. He stole incredibly expensive bolts of silk from his merchant father's warehouse to fund church repairs, resulting in a highly publicized civil lawsuit in the town square.

Francis of Assisi was formally sued for fabric theft
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