When his father Bernardone reproached him for being too generous to the poor, Francis, standing before the Bishop of Assisi, in a symbolic gesture, stripped off his clothes, thus showing he renounced his paternal inheritance. Just as at the moment of creation, Francis had nothing, only the life that God gave him, into whose hands he delivered himself.
Puesto que su padre Bernardone le reprochaba su excesiva generosidad con los pobres, Francisco, ante el obispo de Asís, con un gesto simbólico se despojó de sus vestidos, indicando así que renunciaba a la herencia paterna: como en el momento de la creación, Francisco no tiene nada más que la vida que Dios le ha dado, a cuyas manos se entrega.