Fr. Murray Bodo, OFM

Murray Bodo is a Franciscan friar and priest of the Franciscan Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe and a member of the Franciscan Academy. Born in Gallup, New Mexico, he was ordained a priest in 1964 and in 1991 earned a PhD in English at the University of Cincinnati.

For more than forty years he has spent part of each year in Rome and Assisi with Franciscan Pilgrimage Programs, leading pilgrims in the footsteps of St. Francis and St. Clare. He is the author of more than 30 books; his best-selling Francis: The Journey and the Dream has sold over 200,000 copies.

Tau Publishing is his home for poetry, memoir and books on Francis and Clare, and for Spanish editions of his best-loved titles.