Life of St. Francis of Assisi

FRANCIS'S WILL AND DEATH, 333 CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SOURCES, 347 APPENDIX. CRITICAL STUDY OF T...

YOUTH Assisi is to-day very much what it was six or seven hundred years ago. The feudal castle is in ruins, but the aspect of the city is just the same. Its long-deserted streets,...

STAGES OF CONVERSION Spring 1204-Spring 1206 On his return to Assisi Francis at once resumed his former mode of life; perhaps he even tried in some degree to make up for lost tim...

THE CHURCH ABOUT 1209 St. Francis was inspired as much as any man may be, but it would be a palpable error to study him apart from his age and from the conditions in which he live...

STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPH Spring of 1206-February 24, 1209 The biographies of St. Francis have preserved to us an incident which shows how great was the religious ferment even in the...

FIRST YEAR OF APOSTOLATE Spring of 1209-Summer of 1210 The very next morning Francis went up to Assisi and began to preach. His words were simple, but they came so straight from ...

ST. FRANCIS AND INNOCENT III Summer 1210[1] Seeing the number of his friars daily increasing, Francis decided to write the Rule of the Order and go to Rome to procure its approva...

RIVO-TORTO 1210-1211 The Penitents of Assisi were overflowing with joy. After so many mortally long days spent in that Rome, so different from the other cities that they knew, ex...

PORTIUNCULA 1211 It was doubtless toward the spring of 1211 that the Brothers quitted Rivo-Torto. They were engaged in prayer one day, when a peasant appeared with an ass, which ...

SANTA CLARA Popular piety in Umbria never separates the memory of St. Francis from that of Santa Clara. It is right. Clara[1] was born at Assisi in 1194, and was consequently abo...

continually lavishing upon Francis and Clara expressions of affection and admiration which appear to be absolutely sincere; and yet the Franciscan ideal--regarded as the life of lo...

FIRST ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE INFIDELS Autumn, 1212-Summer, 1215 The early Brothers Minor had too much need of the encouragement and example of Francis not to have very early agree...

THE INNER MAN AND WONDER-WORKING The missionary journey, undertaken under the encouragement of St. Clara and so poetically inaugurated by the sermon to the birds of Bevagna, appea...

THE CHAPTER-GENERAL OF 1217[1] After Whitsunday of 1217 chronological notes of Francis's life are numerous enough to make error almost impossible. Unhappily, this is not the case ...

of June 11, 1219, which was not an approbation properly so called, but a safe-conduct in favor of the Franciscans. [36] He took possession of St. Sabine on February 28, 1...

ST. DOMINIC AND ST. FRANCIS The Egyptian Mission. Summer 1218-Autumn 1220 Art and poetry have done well in inseparably associating St. Dominic and St. Francis; the glory of the f...

THE CRISIS OF THE ORDER[1] Autumn, 1220 On his arrival in Venice Francis informed himself yet more exactly concerning all that had happened, and convoked the chapter-general at P...

THE RULE OF 1221[1] The winter of 1220-1221 was spent by Francis chiefly in fixing his thought by writing. Until now he had been too much the man of action to have been able to gi...

THE BROTHERS MINOR AND LEARNING Autumn, 1221-December, 1223 After the chapter of 1221 the evolution of the Order hurried on with a rapidity which nothing was strong enough to che...

THE STIGMATA 1224 The upper valley of the Arno forms in the very centre of Italy a country apart, the Casentino, which through centuries had its own life, somewhat like an island...

THE CANTICLE OF THE SUN Autumn, 1224-Autumn, 1225 The morning after St. Michael's Day (September 30, 1224) Francis quitted Verna and went to Portiuncula. He was too much exhauste...

THE LAST YEAR September, 1225-End of September, 1226 What did Ugolini think when they told him that Francis was planning to send his friars, transformed into _Joculatores Domini_...

FRANCIS'S WILL AND DEATH End of September-October 3, 1226 The last days of Francis's life are of radiant beauty. He went to meet death, singing,[1] says Thomas of Celano, summing...

indefatigable author has pressed, somewhat at hazard, the sheaves of his predecessors. Most of the time he inserts them just as they are, confining himself to the work of harvestin...

'Served by a poor priest who scarely' in Chapter IV was changed to 'Served by a poor priest who scarcely'. In the original text, 'obediunt' was NOT italicized in the foll...

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