![]() ![]() Ideal for gift-giving, this beautiful edition offers all of G. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche. The most insightful book about Francis of Assisi ever. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. ![]() Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. He founded the mens Order of Friars Minor, the womens Order of. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life-the one that gets to the heart of the matter.įor Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. ![]() Chesterton on Francis, you get two glories for one: first is an enlightening study of this most beloved of Christian saints and second is Chesterton himself, one of the great Christian writers of the 20th century, who converted to Roman. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. There are certainly many studies of Saint Francis of Assisi that an interested reader might find and many of them immensely praiseworthy. ![]() Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. ![]()
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