Her father wasn't best pleased and came to drag her back home but she clung to the altar of the church screaming and Francis intervened and peeled her off the masonary and sent her miles away to another monastery in Subasio out of the reach of her father and given a small dwelling.
News soon spread and women would come to live her enclosure and she founded the Order of Poor Ladies and considering this was the early 13th Century, it was a full time job and while many of the poor's only worldly possession was a pot which had Do Not Fill With Urine written on the side of it, what they did have plenty of disease and she would often come down with whichever unpleasant malady was doing the rounds at the time.
It was during one of these bouts of sickness that she was laying in bed wiping snot and flem from her nightdress and wondering how the mass she was too sick to attend was going when she heard chanting coming from the corner of the bedroom.
Setting her vomit bucket aside and staring into that corner, she saw the Mass being performed right on the wall of her room in glorious technicolour which is why she was named the Patron Saint of Television, obviously that came later as the TV wasn't invented until 700 years later.
Unfortunately nobody invented it earlier, it would have probably made those nights in the monastery go a lot more quicker but they had enough excitement when the Roman Emperor Frederick II sent his army to attack them.
She prayed for the local's to defend them and they did although not long afterwards she endured a long period of poor health and she died on 11 August 1253 which presented a problem for the Church when they granted her Sainthood because that day was already the Feast Day of Saints Tiburtius and Saint Susanna so they considered moving hers to the next day and then thought bugger it and bumped the Saintly pair off the saints calendar and moved her to today.
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