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De Beer does not aim to examine the saint’s life from testimonies written once that life on earth had been concluded; rather he inquires how those who knew Francis first hand encountered him while he was still alive. He attempts to discover how Francis's contemporaries experienced him close up. How did they criticize him? How did they imagine him?

1983: 145 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0803-2
$9.00

Saints Francis and Clare Press present a Songbook and CD combo of the Prayers of St. Francis.

NOW AVAILABLE: CHRISTMAS AT GRECCIO - Vocalist, Stacie Bert - Arranger, Joe Higginbotham, OFS

Rules, Testament and Admonitions contains essays by William J. Short, Michael W. Blastic, Jay M. Hammond, PhD and JA Wayne Hellmann.
2011: 336 pages. Pb 978-1-57659-232-8 $29.95
2011: 336 pages. Hc 978-1-57659-294-6 $34.95

Letters and Prayers features the scholarly work of Luigi Pellegrini, Jean- François Godet-Calogeras, Michael W. Blastic, Michael F. Cusato, Jay M. Hammond PhD, and Laurent Gallant.

2011: 336 pages. Pb 978-1-57659-230-4 $29.95
2011: 336 pages. Hc 978-1-57659-293-9 $34.95

There was a passion, an intense energy of love that drove Francis to center his entire life in Christ. Christ was, indeed, the teacher of his heart. This book concentrates on the Christological dimension of Francis’s thought seen through the prism of his writings and against the background of the world in which he lived.

ISBN 1-57659-066-6
EAN 978-1-57659-066-9
253 pages
Tradepaper
1994

$14.95

These essays offer critical examinations of the historical event. They present contemporary interpretations of how the stigmata narration developed and its meaning for our time.
$24.95

ISBN 1-57659-140-9
EAN 978-1-57659-140-6
113 Pages
Tradepaper
2006

A selection of a dozen essays on St. Francis from great twentieth theologians and historians commemorating the eighth century of the birth of St. Francis. This book is both a good characterization of the Spirituals and an interesting starting point for the study of Capuchin reform.

ISBN 1-57659-063-1
EAN 978-1-57659-063-8
194 pages
Tradepaper
1982

$10.00

Anglican Bishop and renowned medievalist John Moorman writes in his preface to this terrific, short biography of Francis of Assisi that Francis has something to say to people of all kinds. He was a mystic with a special interest in, and understanding of, nature. He was a poet, the first to write in verse in any modern language. He was a man of great courage, risking his life in carrying out his ideals, He inspired large numbers of men to give away all that they possessed and live as vagabonds, begging their bread from door to door, All these things were important, and all combine to make him a very remarkable man. But perhaps the thing about him which appeals to us most today is the challenge which he threw down to the standards and values of the ordinary, secular life of man.

By Edith van den Goorbergh, OSC and Theodore Zweerman, OFM.
Translated from the Dutch.
Through a meticulous reading of his writing, one can discover Francis the Mystic. The authors pay full attention to what Francis has to say and pay special attention to texts from the liturgy of Francis’s time.

ISBN 1-57659-178-6
EAN 978-1-57659-178-9
435 pages
Tradepaper
2001

$29.95