Tau PublishingThe Legend of Saint Francis
by the Three Companions
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-764-1
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-305-6
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-306-3
- Pages
- 82
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound, Tau Publishing edition, 2026 (translated 1902)
- Language
- English
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About this book
“As it were from a pleasant meadow we pluck certain flowers that in our judgment are fairer than the rest.” — Brothers Leo, Rufino and Angelo, Greccio, 1246
In the summer of 1246, three of the closest companions of St. Francis, Brother Leo, Brother Rufino and Brother Angelo, sent the Minister General their own memories of the man they had lived beside. The Legend of the Three Companions is a plain and vivid account of the merchant’s son of Assisi: his captivity at Perugia, the leper he kissed, the crucifix that spoke to him at San Damiano, the day he gave his very clothes back to his father, and the joyful, penniless first brotherhood that gathered around him.
This edition reprints E. Gurney Salter’s 1902 translation, the first in English, with her Epilogue on the early sources and a new Note to This Edition that sets the book in the light of modern Franciscan scholarship.
Inside
- Note to This Edition
- The Letter of the Three Companions
- The Legend, in chapters from Francis’s youth to the approval of the Rule
- E. Gurney Salter’s Epilogue on the early sources
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