Case file · Folklore / legend
Saint Francis and the wolf of Gubbio
First told in the 'Actus beati Francisci' (c. 1330) and the 'Fioretti', the legend says Francis tamed a man-eating wolf at Gubbio around 1220 and made a pact for the town to feed it.
1330 CE · 43.35, 12.58 · status: legend
The sceptical view
A moral tale written a century later; in 1872 a wolf skeleton was reportedly found under a Gubbio church.