The Prayer of St. Francis, is a prayer of anonymous origin that is attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. It was written in the early twentieth century, having first appeared in 1912 in a spiritual bulletin in Paris. In 1916 it was printed in Rome on a sheet, in which one verse was the prayer and in the other verse of the sheet was a print of San Francisco. By this association and by the fact that the text reflects very well Franciscanism, this prayer began to be divulged as if it were written by the saint himself.