Hilarin Felder, OFM Cap.

Hilarin Felder was born Jakob Felder in 1867 at Eich, near Lucerne. He entered the Capuchin Order at Lucerne in 1886 and was ordained a priest in 1890, and he became a theologian and historian of the Franciscan Order.

He served the Holy See as an apostolic visitor and was named a bishop in 1938. The Ideals of St. Francis of Assisi, more than thirty years in the making, was first published in German in 1923 and in English in 1925.