Saint Francis Mary Croese, O.F.M. Cap., was a Capuchin lay brother from the town of Camporosso, in the Liguria region of modern Italy.
Francis was born to Anselmo Croese and his wife Maria Antonia Garza in the village of Camporosso, today belonging to the Province of Imperia in the Ligurian region of northwestern Italy. As a youth, he helped his father in the farmwork.
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