Tau PublishingSaint Francis of Assisi
A Biography
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-755-9
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-914-0
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-915-7
- Pages
- 396
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound, Tau Publishing edition, 2026 (translated 1912)
- Language
- English
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About this book
“Learn from Francis, that ideals ought to be put into practice!” — Johannes Jørgensen
In 1894 a young Danish poet stood for the first time in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi. Two years later Johannes Jørgensen was received into the Catholic Church, and he gave the rest of his life to the saint who had led him there. This biography, first published in 1907 and translated into English by T. O’Conor Sloane, became one of the two great modern lives of St. Francis, read alongside Paul Sabatier’s for half a century.
Jørgensen follows Francis from the sickbed of a wealthy young merchant’s son through the rebuilding of San Damiano, the first brothers at Rivo Torto, the Portiuncula and the Rule, to the stigmata on La Verna and the Canticle of Brother Sun, with a poet’s eye for Umbria and a pilgrim’s knowledge of its roads.
Complete here with the author’s Appendix on the sources, the original plates and a new Note to This Edition.
Inside
- Note to This Edition and Author’s Preface
- Book One: Francis the Church Builder
- Book Two and Book Three: the Order, the missions and God’s Singer
- Book Four: La Verna, the stigmata and the death of Francis
- Appendix on the sources
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