Saint Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
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This book captures Saint Francis in all his eccentricities and contradictions and yet reveals the very essence of his intellectual and spiritual grounding in the Church.Paperback 150 pages
Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the high Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.
