What does Francis's decision to strip away the last remnants of his worldly possessions in public tell us about Francis? How does the public nature of this moment change / alter its significance?
Francis strips away his last possessions and gives it to his father, he makes a choice of leaving all the worldly materials. At this time, Francis had already lived a poor and homeless life in which he found himself naked to the greed and rudeness of the people around him. When he decides to strip away I believe that he is doing it with a feeling of renunciation and acceptance of God´s will. Anything that comes to his life, any decision that people made around him was welcome to this moment into his life. We don't know that much about how people thought of nakedness in that time, we know that usually they called him a lunatic and that when he was asking for rocks for rebuilding the church they threw the rocks at him along with mud. They might have thought that he was pervert or an unconscious person since he was doing it in front of the bishop and all the people. At the end Franci's father leaves with his money and his sons clothes and probably this touched the heart of some people.
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