Author: Saint Francis (of Assisi)Publisher:
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Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Words of Saint Francis from His Works and the Early Legends
Author: Saint Francis (of Assisi)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritual life
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Words of Saint Francis from His Early Works and Legends
Author: Saint Francis Bernardoni (of Assisi)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The Words of Saint Francis, from His Works and the Early Legends
Author: Saint FrancisPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 160206394X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
The Words of St. Francis, from His Works and the Early Legends
Author: Anne MacdonellThe Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
Author: Saint Francis (of Assisi)Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Words of Saint Francis, from His Works and the Early Legends. Selected and Translated by Anne Macdonell
Author: Saint Francis (of Assisi)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Author: Candide ChalippePublisher:
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Category : Miracles
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Francis of Assisi
Author: Augustine ThompsonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Among the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, his love of animals and nature, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. During his lifetime and after his death, followers collected, for their own purposes, numerous stories, anecdotes, and reports about Francis. As a result, the man himself and his own concerns became lost in legend. In this authoritative and engaging new biography, Augustine Thompson, O.P., sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The result is a complex yet sympathetic portrait of the man and the saint. Francis emerges from this account as very much a typical thirteenth-century Italian layman, but one who, when faced with unexpected crises in his personal life, made decisions so radical that they challenge his own society-and ours. Unlike the saint of legend, this Francis never had a unique divine inspiration to provide him with rules for following the teachings of Jesus. Rather, he spent his life reacting to unexpected challenges, before which he often found himself unprepared and uncertain. The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies. His famed devotion to poverty is found to be more nuanced than expected, perhaps not even his principal spiritual concern. Thompson revisits events small and large in Francis's life, including his troubled relations with his father, his contacts with Clare of Assisi, his encounter with the Muslim sultan, and his receiving the Stigmata, to uncover the man behind the legends and popular images. A tour de force of historical research and biographical writing, Francis of Assisi: A New Biography is divided into two complementary parts-a stand alone biographical narrative and a close, annotated examination of the historical sources about Francis. Taken together, the narrative and the survey of the sources provide a much-needed fresh perspective on this iconic figure. "As I have worked on this biography," Thompson writes, "my respect for Francis and his vision has increased, and I hope that this book will speak to modern people, believers and unbelievers alike, and that the Francis I have come to know will have something to say to them today."
The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
Author: Saint Francis (of Assisi)Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Francis of Assisi - The Founder: Early Documents, vol. 2
Author: Regis J. ArmstrongPublisher: New City Press
ISBN: 1565481127
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Founder is the second volume of the long-awaited and best-selling project Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. All three volumes contain helpful introductions to each section, colored maps, cross references, and extensive annotation. The Founder contains: The Beginning or the Founding of the Order and the Deeds of those Lesser Brothers who where the First Companions of Blessed Francis in Religion The Legend of the Three Companions The Assisi Compilation The Remembrance of the Desire of A Soul by Thomas of Celano The Treatise on the Miracles of Saint Francis by Thomas of Celano An Umbrian Choir Legend A Letter on the Passing of Saint Francis Attributed to Elias of Assisi The Legends and Sermons about Saint Francis by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio Related Documents