In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

In one story, this man saved the town of Gubbio by making a pact with an attacking wolf. After spending time as a Perugian captive, he saw a vision of a hall full of cross-marked armor, which encouraged him to travel to Apulia. After 40 days' fasting on the mountain La Verna, he saw a six-winged seraph, after which he received the stigmata, according to his namesake Fioretti. He praised Sister Death, Brother Fire, and Brother Moon in his Canticle of the Sun, and was credited with inventing the Nativity creche scene. For 10 points, identify this Catholic patron saint of animals, the founder of a namesake group whose first two orders are the Poor Clares and the Friars Minor.
History

The Idler and The Rambler were two periodicals written by this man, and he popularized the term "Metaphysical Poets" in his series of biographies Lives of the Poets. The title prince travels with his mentor Imlac out of Happy Valley in search of true happiness in this author's prose work, Rasselas, while his greatest accomplishment was an epic of over 115,000 entries, the standard of its type until the creation of the Oxford English version. Author of an 18th-century Dictionary of the English Language, FTP name this British writer whose own biography was written by his one-time companion James Boswell.
Literature

This structure is absent when the FOXN1 (read "fox-N-one") gene is deleted. Its epithelial cells express the AIRE gene and contain Hassall corpuscles. One syndrome in which it is missing is often associated with hypocalcemia due to low parathyroid activity and is known as DiGeorge syndrome. Patients with myasthenia gravis often have hyperplasia of this organ. Positive selection for cells that ultimately express either CD4 or CD8 occurs in this organ's cortex. Cancer development is often studied in mice lacking this organ because they fail to produce cells that recognize MHC-bound antigens. For 10 points, name this organ that shrinks as a person ages and that is the maturation site for T cells.

Science