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The Blessed (subsequently Saint) Francisco Geronimo y Gravina. Engraving by F. Gordillo, 1807, with letterpress. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Further information in the New Catholic encyclopaedia, Washington D.C. 1967-1979, vol. VI, pp. 31-32. St Francis wanted to be sent to preach in the Far East but the Jesuit authorities wanted him to stay in Naples, which was the centre of his apostolic labours. He worked through the "Oratorio delle Missioni", an organization of working men which functioned as a sickness benefit and funeral society. His preaching was famous: sometimes he would bring a skull to the pulpit, at others scourge his bare shoulders with an iron chain until they bled. He established hostels for reformed prostitutes and their children. His beatification, postponed by the suppression of the Jesuit order, finally took place in 1806, and his canonisation in 1839
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