Francis The Poor Man Of Assisi

Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480411345
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi written by Tomie dePaola and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully drawn illustrations pair with great storytelling in this glimpse into the life of Francis of Assisi In lively prose and folksy paintings, Tomie dePaola gives a glimpse into the life of Francis of Assisi. After witnessing his father disrespect a beggar, Francis comes to forsake his worldly possessions and travel from village to village helping the poor and sheltering animals. dePaola’s recognizable artistic style and episodic telling of events in the life of Francis are accessible to young readers, and the humble tales of the lives of the saints are told with tenderness and reverence. This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book.

Author : Andre Vauchez
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300184921
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francis of Assisi written by Andre Vauchez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the saint as both mystic and man: “The single best book about Francis now available in English” (Commonweal). In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, particularly the important research of recent decades, to create a complete and engaging portrait of the saint. He also explores how the memory of Francis was shaped by contemporaries who recollected him in their writings, and completes the book by setting “il Poverello” in the context of his time, bringing to light what was new, surprising, and even astonishing in the life and vision of this man. The first part of the book is a fascinating reconstruction of Francis’s life and work. The second and third parts deal with the texts—hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc.—of writers who recorded aspects of Francis’s life and movement as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. Finally, Vauchez explores those aspects of Francis’s life, personality, and spiritual vision that were unique to him, including his experience of God, his approach to nature, his understanding and use of Scripture, and his impact on culture as well as culture’s impact on him. “Considered one of the great spiritual leaders of humankind, Francis of Assisi was also a man of many faces and personas: ascetic, the founder of a religious order, a romantic hero, a mystic, a defender of the poor, a promoter of peace. But as Vauchez emphasizes—and this biography constantly reminds us—Francis was also a flesh-and-blood human being . . . A bracing, erudite account of a mystic’s life.” —Booklist

Author : Tomie DePaola
Publisher : Magnificat-Ignatius
ISBN 13 : 9781621643692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brother Francis of Assisi written by Tomie DePaola and published by Magnificat-Ignatius. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition published under the title, "Francis, the poor man of Assisi" in 1982.

Author : Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198035896
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poverty of Riches written by Kenneth Baxter Wolf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive saint ever produced by the Catholic Church. The unusually high regard with which he is held has served to insulate him from any real criticism of the kind of sanctity that he embodied: sanctity based first and foremost on his deliberate pursuit of poverty. In this book, Kenneth Baxter Wolf takes a fresh look at Francis and the idea of voluntary poverty as a basis for Christian perfection. Wolf's point of departure is a series of simple but hitherto unasked questions about the precise nature of Francis's poverty: How did he go about transforming himself from a rich man to a poor one? How successful was this transformation? How did his self-imposed poverty compare to the involuntary poverty of those he met in and around Assisi? What did poor people of this type get out of their contact with Francis? What did Francis get out of his contact with them? Wolf finds that while Francis's conception of poverty as a spiritual discipline may have opened the door to salvation for wealthy Christians like himself, it effectively precluded the idea that the poor could use their own involuntary poverty as a path to heaven. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the earliest biographies of the saint, as well as Francis's own writings, Wolf's work sheds important new light on the inherent ironies of poverty as a spiritual discipline and its relationship to poverty as a socio-economic affliction.

Author : Ivan Gobry
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681497344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi written by Ivan Gobry and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has inspired countless films, paintings, poems and novels. But who was Francesco Bernadone, now known as Saint Francis of Assisi? Despite the wealth of writing on the life of this great saint, many still don't know the man. They know the legend: a Francis made palatable to modern sensibilitiesùthe happy friar who carols to the birds and writes poems to the sun and moon. This is the image of the saint that is usually presented, even though it fails to encompass the true personality of Francis. Ivan Gobry, Ph.D., takes on the task of revealing the real man, the man who abandoned wealth and chose to live a beggar's life. Saint Francis lived a life that was full of danger and adventure, ministering to lepers and even traveling to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Muslims. Disciples flocked to him, drawn by the radical challenge of living the Gospel in a world that had become attracted to decadence. Francis rejoiced in nature and animals, but also fought spiritual battles against temptation and vice. Dr. Gobry restores a profoundly human dimension to the Little Poor Man of Assisi: a far cry from the image that has become conventional.

Author : Saint Francis (of Assisi)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi written by Saint Francis (of Assisi) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Emmanuel Alves
Publisher : Encounter the Saints (Paperbac
ISBN 13 : 9780819870308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi written by Mary Emmanuel Alves and published by Encounter the Saints (Paperbac. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Francis of Assisi, focusing on his unique conversion experience and desire to imitate Jesus as closely as possible.

Author : Silvia Vecchini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860825620
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi written by Silvia Vecchini and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the story of the world's best-loved saint! Discover his message of joy, forgiveness and peace, and his love for all of God's creation.

Author : Juliette Levivier
Publisher : Life of a Saint
ISBN 13 : 9781586176235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francis written by Juliette Levivier and published by Life of a Saint. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2009 by Fleurus-Mame in Paris.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.