Tau PublishingFrancis the Leper
Faith, Medicine, Theology, and Science
by Sr. Joanne Schatzlein, OSF, and Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-223-3
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-798-6
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-799-3
- Pages
- 72
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, April 2014
- Language
- English
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About this book
Those who know the story of St. Francis know how pivotal was his embrace of the lepers. But what if Francis himself had leprosy?
In 1987 a Franciscan nurse and a young physician asked that question in Franciscan Studies, weighing the illnesses described by the early biographers against modern medicine: the fevers, the eye disease, the wounds and the final illness. Their answer was a strong case that Francis suffered from leprosy.
This book updates that study and tells the story of the idea since, with photographs of Francis’s tomb and bones, and asks what it means for faith, theology and science if the saint who kissed the leper became one himself.
With a foreword by Murray Bodo, OFM.
Inside
- Foreword by Murray Bodo, OFM
- Chapter 1: The Idea of Francis as a Leper
- Chapter 2: The Diagnosis of St. Francis as a Leper
- Illustrations, including photographs of the bones of St. Francis