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Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Francesco
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
Depicting the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi and the rise of the Franciscan order that he founded. Following his death, Francis2 devoted followers recall the saint2s life and chart his transformation from the pampered son of an aristocrat into a selfless man of faith devoted wholly to a life of apostolic poverty.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast day. Not only Catholics, however, but Protestants and other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and nonreligious Americans commonly name him as one of their favorite spiritual figures. Appelbaum traces popular depictions and interpretations of...
Author
Publisher
Magnificat
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One morning during Mass, Francis heard these words of Jesus from the Gospel: 'Take no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts, no bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the laborer deserves his food.' Francis took off his shoes and threw away his walking stick and the cloak he wore to keep warm. He threw away his belt and tied a piece of rope around his rough robe. Full of joy, he went up to Assisi and sang about the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes of unprecedented intellectual ambition in the Basilica of San Francesco. At the heart of the new decorative scheme were twenty-eight scenes depicting the life of Saint...
Series
Criterion collection volume 293
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Italiano
Description
"In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From the author: St. Francis and Brother Duck is the beginning of a journey to the young reader's heart and soul. When I was fourteen years old I read my first biography on the life of St. Francis and it literally changed my life forever. In a world of materialistic thinking that begins with the youth, St. Francis and Brother Duck has the purpose of sharing with the youth a new perspective on the world, on faith, and on themselves. Enjoy! From...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Turn from fear and find peace. Saint Francis understood soldiers and fools, mothers and fathers, businesspeople and rulers, poets and court entertainers, pastors and criminals. He was, at one time or another, in both subtle and obvious ways, all of these things. Each spiritual lesson from the life of Saint Francis of Assisi begins with an invitation to embrace the wolf--to consider another viewpoint, to befriend our fears, and to discover something...
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