After two centuries of religious heresy, the Church needed a spiritual renewal, finding the perfect ally in Francis of Assisi (1182 1226), pious without being troublesomely militant.
A spiritual renewal was needed for the church after the heresies that had gone on.
With him are two other worthy Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ieyasu's mentor, and the great 12th-century warrior Minamoto no Yoritomo, who founded the Kamakura shogunate and whom Ieyasu claimed as an ancestor.