[PDF] Saint Francis And The Wolf eBook

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781567923209

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This lovely retelling of one of the lesser known tales of the Saint Francis's lessons centers on the legend of the great wolf of Gubbio, a ferocious canine who terrorized the town and was slowly reducing it to penury and starvation. In nearby Assisi, Brother Francis heard of their plight and came to their rescue. Unbelievingly, the villagers watched from the ramparts as Brother Francis called to the wolf, tamed it with his tenderness, and made it pledge that if the people of Gubbio would care for it, he would do them no harm. He took the pledge and lived in harmony with the citizens of the city until his death.

Author : Jon M. Sweeney
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506470734

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Turn from fear and find peace. In Feed the Wolf, author and Saint Francis scholar Jon M. Sweeney explores fifteen spiritual practices from the essential wisdom of Saint Francis for us to apply to our twenty-first-century lives.

Author : Richard Egielski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0066238706

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Terrible wolf is terrorizing the town of Gubbio, and no one can stop him until Saint Francis visits the town and speaks to the wolf in his own language.

Author : Colony Elliott Santangelo
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781929766079

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Exquisitely embellished in gold, imbued with the vibrant palette of the Renaissance, and painstakingly rendered on bass wood panels, Brother Wolf embraces the spirit of its time. An old wolf terrorizes the villagers of Gubbio-until Saint Francis brings about a peace between man and animal. This inspiring and favorite legend is richly illuminated and lovingly depicted by a new artist of great talent. A storyteller's ear informs a tale whose gentle message of spirituality and the brotherhood of all living things will strike a resonant chord. Those familiar with art history will delight in finding images which quote famous paintings; all others will simply delight.

Author : Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198035896

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Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive saint ever produced by the Catholic Church. The unusually high regard with which he is held has served to insulate him from any real criticism of the kind of sanctity that he embodied: sanctity based first and foremost on his deliberate pursuit of poverty. In this book, Kenneth Baxter Wolf takes a fresh look at Francis and the idea of voluntary poverty as a basis for Christian perfection. Wolf's point of departure is a series of simple but hitherto unasked questions about the precise nature of Francis's poverty: How did he go about transforming himself from a rich man to a poor one? How successful was this transformation? How did his self-imposed poverty compare to the involuntary poverty of those he met in and around Assisi? What did poor people of this type get out of their contact with Francis? What did Francis get out of his contact with them? Wolf finds that while Francis's conception of poverty as a spiritual discipline may have opened the door to salvation for wealthy Christians like himself, it effectively precluded the idea that the poor could use their own involuntary poverty as a path to heaven. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the earliest biographies of the saint, as well as Francis's own writings, Wolf's work sheds important new light on the inherent ironies of poverty as a spiritual discipline and its relationship to poverty as a socio-economic affliction.

Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2021-04-17
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Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of humanHistory. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter.For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry andRomance-General-General-Generalthan 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 a 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.

Author : Brian Wildsmith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9780192723383

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The story of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, who rejects his wealthy background to lead a life of poverty, good works, and kindness to animals, told as though spoken by the saint himself.

Author : Mrs. Lang
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1933184132

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True stories and legends about the saints.