Saint Francis Of Assisi
Item Number: 59375
About this Book
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. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter.
For 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. 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. 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. 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 prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.
1. Don Carlo Gnocchi - Priest of Heroic Kindness 06/18/2009
2. Fr. Vincent Capodanno - Priest of Heroic Virtue 06/01/2009
3. Our Lady of Fatima 02/26/2009
4. St. Anthony of Padua 02/26/2009
5. St. Mark the Evangelist 02/24/2009
6. St. Joseph 02/23/2009
7. St. Patrick 02/11/2009
8. The Way of the Cross 01/21/2009
9. St. John Bosco 01/16/2009
10. St. Valentine 01/16/2009
11. St. Anthony the Great, Founder of Monasticism 01/14/2009
12. Archbishop Fulton Sheen 01/14/2009
13. St. Francis de Sales 01/06/2009
14. St. Thomas Aquinas 01/06/2009
15. The Conversion of Paul 12/17/2008
16. St. Agnes of Rome 12/17/2008
17. Children's Resources for Learning About the Saints 12/15/2008
18. About Our Lady of Guadalupe 12/05/2008
19. Pope St. Damasus I 12/02/2008
20. St. Jude Thaddeus 12/02/2008
21. Good King Wenceslas 11/25/2008
22. St. Francis Xavier 11/24/2008
23. Learn About Mary 11/24/2008
24. St. Catherine of Alexandria 11/24/2008
25. St. Lucy 11/24/2008
26. Saint Cecilia 11/21/2008
27. Devotion to the Saints 11/13/2008
28. St. Albert the Great 11/04/2008
29. St. Martin de Porres, the Saint of the Broom 10/24/2008
30. St. Michael the Archangel 10/24/2008
31. St. Josaphat Kuncevyc 10/21/2008
32. St. Teresa of Avila 10/14/2008
33. St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart 10/14/2008
34. In Remembrance of Pope John Paul II 10/13/2008
35. Resources for the Year of St. Paul 10/13/2008
36. The Franciscan Tau Cross 10/07/2008
37. About St. Dominic 10/07/2008
38. A Letter From Padre Pio 10/01/2008
39. Francis and Clare - A New Feature Film 10/01/2008
40. Mother Teresa's Secret Fire 10/01/2008
41. St. Pio - Padre Pio - A Model for Our Times 09/22/2008
42. The Apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes 07/21/2008
43. About St. Bernadette 07/21/2008
44. The Conversion of St. Paul 07/03/2008
45. Why a Year of St. Paul? 07/02/2008
46. The Martyrdom of St. Paul 07/02/2008
47. Our Mother (Our Lady) of Perpetual Help 06/24/2008
48. About the Nativity of St. John the Baptist 06/20/2008
49. About St. Aloysius Gonzaga 06/19/2008
50. The Feast of St. Justin Martyr 05/31/2008
51. Feast of the Annunciation 03/31/2008
52. St. Josephine Bakhita 02/08/2008
53. Feast of St. John Neumann 01/02/2008
54. Feast of St. Sylvester I, Pope 12/30/2007
55. Feast of the Holy Family 12/29/2007
56. Feast of St. Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr 12/28/2007
57. Feast of St. John the Evangelist 12/26/2007
58. Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 12/26/2007
59. Feast of St. Stephen, Martyr 12/24/2007
60. Feast of St. Basil the Great 12/21/2007
61. Feast of the Holy Innocents 12/18/2007
62. All Saints Day 10/22/2007
63. How a Saint is Made 05/19/2007
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