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With a new Preface by the noted writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of nearly fifty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time . St. Francis of Assisi's ecstatic embrace of a life of poverty revolutionized Christianity even as it transformed the ethics of the West. In this... read more
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- Saint Francis: Add a description of this character.
- Brother Bernard
- Brother John
- Brother Leo
- Brother Elias
- Brother James
- Brother Conrad
- Virgin Mary
- Antony
- Saint Clara
- Brother Simon
- Brother Peter
- Brother Francis
- Brother Wolf
- Matins
- Brother Guy
- Brother Rufus
- Chrill
- Saint Paul
- Chrift
- Grace
- Saint Peter
- Brother Maximus
- Sifter Clara
- Holt
- Peter Bernardone
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First, it is to be considered that the glorious St. Francis in all the acts of his life was conformed to Christ the blessed: in that as Christ, at the beginning of His preaching, chose twelve apostles to despise every earthly thing and to follow Him in poverty and in the other virtues; so did St. Francis, at the beginning, choose for the foundation of his order twelve companions, possessors of most high Poverty.
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- Dewey: 271.302
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