St. Francis may refer to numerous Roman Catholic saints:
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), Italian founder of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)
- Saint Francis of Paola (1416–1507), Italian (Calabrian) founder of the Order of the Minims
- Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Navarrese Catholic missionary to China; co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
- Saint Francis Borgia (1510–1572), Spanish Jesuit priest; third leader of the Jesuits
- Saint Francis Solanus (1549–1610), Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America
- Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563–1608), Italian priest who co-founded the Congregation of the Minor Clerics Regular
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622), French born bishop of Geneva, Switzerland
- Saint Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (1607–1648), Castilian Dominican missionary; first Roman Catholic martyr killed in China
- Saint Francis de Geronimo (1642–1716), Italian Jesuit priest
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“The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.”
—St. Francis De Sales (1567–1622)