Brother Francis An Anthology of Writings by and About St. Francis of Assisi
Edited by Lawrence Cunningham
- New York Harper & Row 1972
- 201 p.
Contents:
Francis of Assisi: the hippie saint / Joseph Roddy
Saint Francis: the medieval man and his culture / Friedrich Heer
Saint Francis as religious revolutionary / Paul Sabatier
Saint Francis in the legends: selections from the Fioretti
These are the little flowers of Saint Francis and his brothers
How Saint Francis converted Signor Bernardo of Assisi
How Saint Francis and Brother Leo said morning prayer without a breviary
How Brother Masseo tempted Saint Francis
Saint Francis holds a general chapter at Assisi
How Saint Francis went to convert the Sultan of Egypt
How Saint Francis healed a leper in body and soul
How Saint Francis and Brother Ruffino preached naken in the streets of Assisi
Saint Francis on himself
Saint Francis and nature / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The canticle of Brother Sun / Francis of Assisi
Selections from the early life of the saint
Selections from the Fioretti
How Saint Francis was puzzles about his life
Should he pray exclusively or also give time to preaching?
How Saint Francis freed the city of Gubbio of a ravenous wolf
How a young man gave some doves to Saint Francis, and they would not leave without the Saint's permission
How Saint Anthony preached to the fish near Rimini
The historical roots of our ecological crises / Lynn White, Jr
Excerpts from the rule of Saint Francis
Selections from the legend of the three companions
On piously living in a hermitage
The little testament
Selections from the Fioretti
How Saint Francis spent an entire lent subsisting on a half load of bread
How Saint Francis in a trip to France lifted Brother Masseo in the air by his breath alone
How Saint Francis explained a vision of Brother Leo's
How Saint Francis prayed for a nobleman, and he later became a friar
How the citizens of Assisi ran to Saint Mary of the angels to put out a fire
How Saint Clare, being very ill, was taken from her cell to church by the miraculous hand of God
How Saint Clare blessed the good at table at the command of the pope and, by a miracle of God, the sign of the cross appeared on each loaf
A selection from the legend of the three companions
Francis and Clare / Nikos Kazantzakis
Francis: the lover / Robert Payne
A letter to all the faithful
Letter to the rulers of the people
Letter to Brother Leo
The perfect joy of Saint Francis
How Christ appeared to Saint Francis and his companions
How a young boy fainted on seeing Saint Francis speak with Christ
The admonitions of Saint Francis
Saint Francis and the stigmata / Johannes Jörgensen
The praises of the most high
The blessing of Brother Leo
The praise of virtue
Prayer to the blessed Virgin Mary
The prayer "Omnipotens"
A prayer of praise and thanksgiving
The prayer of Saint Francis
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Francis of Assisi, Saint 1182-1226
Biographies
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Contents:
Francis of Assisi: the hippie saint / Joseph Roddy
Saint Francis: the medieval man and his culture / Friedrich Heer
Saint Francis as religious revolutionary / Paul Sabatier
Saint Francis in the legends: selections from the Fioretti
These are the little flowers of Saint Francis and his brothers
How Saint Francis converted Signor Bernardo of Assisi
How Saint Francis and Brother Leo said morning prayer without a breviary
How Brother Masseo tempted Saint Francis
Saint Francis holds a general chapter at Assisi
How Saint Francis went to convert the Sultan of Egypt
How Saint Francis healed a leper in body and soul
How Saint Francis and Brother Ruffino preached naken in the streets of Assisi
Saint Francis on himself
Saint Francis and nature / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The canticle of Brother Sun / Francis of Assisi
Selections from the early life of the saint
Selections from the Fioretti
How Saint Francis was puzzles about his life
Should he pray exclusively or also give time to preaching?
How Saint Francis freed the city of Gubbio of a ravenous wolf
How a young man gave some doves to Saint Francis, and they would not leave without the Saint's permission
How Saint Anthony preached to the fish near Rimini
The historical roots of our ecological crises / Lynn White, Jr
Excerpts from the rule of Saint Francis
Selections from the legend of the three companions
On piously living in a hermitage
The little testament
Selections from the Fioretti
How Saint Francis spent an entire lent subsisting on a half load of bread
How Saint Francis in a trip to France lifted Brother Masseo in the air by his breath alone
How Saint Francis explained a vision of Brother Leo's
How Saint Francis prayed for a nobleman, and he later became a friar
How the citizens of Assisi ran to Saint Mary of the angels to put out a fire
How Saint Clare, being very ill, was taken from her cell to church by the miraculous hand of God
How Saint Clare blessed the good at table at the command of the pope and, by a miracle of God, the sign of the cross appeared on each loaf
A selection from the legend of the three companions
Francis and Clare / Nikos Kazantzakis
Francis: the lover / Robert Payne
A letter to all the faithful
Letter to the rulers of the people
Letter to Brother Leo
The perfect joy of Saint Francis
How Christ appeared to Saint Francis and his companions
How a young boy fainted on seeing Saint Francis speak with Christ
The admonitions of Saint Francis
Saint Francis and the stigmata / Johannes Jörgensen
The praises of the most high
The blessing of Brother Leo
The praise of virtue
Prayer to the blessed Virgin Mary
The prayer "Omnipotens"
A prayer of praise and thanksgiving
The prayer of Saint Francis
0606164074
Francis of Assisi, Saint 1182-1226
Biographies
271.3024 Bro 8