Renowned Franciscan scholar Paul Sabatier called it "the most important work that has been made on the life of Saint Francis." The Conformity represents the high- point of medieval glorification of St. Francis. It contains a nearly complete record of the saint's own writings, and material from all known hagiographical legends of the saint.

Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; Italian Francesco d'Assisi; Latin Franciscus Assisiensis; 1181 or 1182 - 3 October 1226), venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, philosopher, mystic, and preacher.^[3] He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity.