Cardinal Bergoglio’s adoption of the name Francis on his election as Pope a year ago this coming week has had various interpretations, mostly associated with his desire for the Church to be of, and for, the poor. There is another, however, which relates to a famous mystical experience in the life of his thirteenth-century namesake. Having just returned from Rome, St Francis heard Christ’s voice speaking from a crucifix in the Church of San Damiano outside Assisi, which was falling down. The voice said: “Go, Francis, and repair my Church in ruins.” In an address in 2010, Benedict XVI explained that though the saint was being called to restore that one small building – which he did – “its ruinous state was a symbol of the dramatic and disquieting si