The Five Wounds Of Saint Francis

Author : Rev. Fr. Solanus M. Benfatti
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780895559937

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The Five Wounds of Saint Francis by Rev. Fr. Solanus M. Benfatti Pdf

Many saints have borne the stigmata - wounds resembling those of Christ's crucifixion. While some of those saints have written about their experience, little is known of the personal experience of the first of all saints to brandish this extraordinary sign, Francis of Assisi. They were and have remained his carefully guarded secret. In The Five Wounds of Saint Francis, author Fr. Solanus Benfatti, CFR, explores the significance of this miraculous event in the Saint's life through careful analysis of pertinent medieval literature and recent scholarly studies. He establishes the historicity of the event, which has been called into question, and draws surprising and inspiring conclusions, leaving the reader with a afresh understanding of Saint Francis's spiritual experience.

Author : Francis [Bernardoni] (of Assisi, Saint. - Archconfraternity of the Girdle of St. Francis.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000578891

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Manual of the Arch-Confraternity of the Cord of St. Francis by Francis [Bernardoni] (of Assisi, Saint. - Archconfraternity of the Girdle of St. Francis.) Pdf

Author : David Williams
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852446209

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The Five Wounds of Jesus by David Williams Pdf

Devotion to the Five Wounds of Jesus has long been one of the most popular forms of Catholic spirituality. David Williams traces the roots of this devotion in Holy Scripture: the words of the prophets foretell the suffering Christ, while the New Testament witnesses to the victorious scars borne by the risen Lord. The Sacred Wounds of Jesus remained a persistent theme in the writings of the Desert Fathers and Doctors of the Church, a theme that was to be more fully developed in the devotional practice of the mediaeval period and on into modern times. Detailing the several forms devotion to the Five Wounds has taken (both mediaeval and modern) - in art, liturgy and poetry - David Williams recalls those holy people favoured by visons of the suffering Lord, as well as those who themselves came to bear the stigmata of Christ. He outlines the history of devotion to the specific wound in the Side - later seen as the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and describes the 'gift of tears' given to some from their reflection upon the Passion of their Master. David Williams is the author of The Cistercians on the Early Middle Ages and The Welsh Cistercians, both published by Gracewing.

Author : Archconfraternity of the cord of st. Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600102927

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Manual, compiled by the Franciscan fathers of Stratford by Archconfraternity of the cord of st. Francis Pdf

Author : St. Francis of Assisi
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : EAN:8596547734529

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The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi by St. Francis of Assisi Pdf

Saint Francis is considered the first Italian poet by some literary critics. He believed commoners should be able to pray to God in their own language, and he often wrote in the dialect of Umbria instead of Latin. Francis' writing fully reflects his personality and spirituality, making them at once formidably mystic and exquisitely human. They combine great elevation of thought with much picturesqueness of expression. Through his prayers, correspondence and regulas readers will connect and unite with one of the most beloved saints of the Catholic Church.

Author : Saint Francis
Publisher : Pomona Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781406792225

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The Little Flowers by Saint Francis Pdf

These three works form the chief sources of the saint's life and the beginnings of the Franciscan Order which he founded in 1212. Born at Assisi in 1182, St Francis embraced a life of holy poverty after a gay and sometimes extravagant youth. At the age of twenty-two he fought with great spirit and was taken prisoner in a petty feud between the town of Assisi and Perugia. During his captivity he reflected on his former mode of life, but attempted to take up arms once more on his recovery. However, a second illness intervened, and after a period in which wordly pleasure and spiritual counsels sought mastery and he finally determined to dedicate his life and work to God. Through pilgrimage, devotion, example and simple teaching he became one of the great Christian reformers. 'Whatever accretions of legendary material', says Fr McKay in his Introduction, 'have crept in here and there to heighten the colours of St Francis's portrait, they are undoubtedly in keeping with the total impressions which St. Francis made upon the world of his day.' Moreover St Francis was the very opposite of a sour Puritan: we are told he was the 'most joyous of saints, and would have no sad, long faces about him, and always rebuked any friar that was gloomy or melancholy.' He wanted his friars to be joculatores Dei ('the minstrels of God'). The Little Flowers is translated from the 'Fioretti', an Italian translation of a Latin original of which the earliest extant manuscript is one of 1390. It is a narration of miracle and hymn connected with the saint and his friars. The Mirror of Perfection is based on documents and memoirs left by Friar Leo, St Francis's favourite disciple, and was completed about 1318. St Bonaventure wrote the Life of St Francis c. 1260, intending it to stand as an authoritative Life and to supersede the numerous fragmentary biographies then in circulation.

Author : Saint Francis (of Assisi)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : PSU:000028770770

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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis by Saint Francis (of Assisi) Pdf

Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798738772481

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Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated by G K Chesterton Pdf

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 human history. 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 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 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 : Lorenzo F. Candelaria
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580462057

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The Rosary Cantoral by Lorenzo F. Candelaria Pdf

"The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo presents a model for realizing the fuller significance of illuminated music manuscripts as cultural artifacts, and offers unprecedented insights into the social and devotional life of Toledo, Spain, around the turn of the sixteenth century. After solving the mystery of the Rosary Cantoral's origins, subsequent essays probe the meaning and cultural significance of the manuscript's iconography (including a border decoration after Albrecht Durer), its rare Spanish chants for the Mass, and two striking musical works for multiple voices (one by Josquin Desprez and another on "L'homme arme"). Ultimately, this book focuses on the extraordinary circumstances that engendered the compilation of the Rosary Cantoral around 1500: a system of patronage between a brotherhood of suspected heretics and a religious house that was a key supporter of the Inquisition in Toledo."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814623867

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Butler's Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

The 200-year-old Butler's Lives of the Saints has undergone a thorough revision and rewriting and is now presented as a 12-volume set categorized according to months of the year. This volume includes those saints commemorated in October.

Author : Carolyn Muessig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198795643

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The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Carolyn Muessig Pdf

Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6:17--I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body--had been circulating since the early Middle Ages in biblical commentaries. These works perceived those with the stigmata as metaphorical representations of martyrs bearing the marks of persecution in order to spread the teaching of Christ in the face of resistance. By the seventh century, the meaning of Galatians 6:17 had been appropriated by bishops and priests as a sign or mark of Christ that they received invisibly at their ordination. Priests and bishops came to be compared to soldiers of Christ, who bore the brand (stigmata) of God on their bodies, just like Roman soldiers who were branded with the name of their emperor. By the early twelfth century, crusaders were said to bear the actual marks of the passion in death and even sometimes as they entered into battle. The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the birth and evolution of religious stigmata and particularly of stigmatic theology, as understood through the ensemble of theological discussions and devotional practices. Carolyn Muessig assesses the role stigmatics played in medieval and early modern religious culture, and the way their contemporaries reacted to them. The period studied covers the dominant discourse of stigmatic theology: that is, from Peter Damian's eleventh-century theological writings to 1630 when the papacy officially recognised the authenticity of Catherine of Siena's stigmata.

Author : Rosalind B. Brooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521782910

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The Image of St Francis by Rosalind B. Brooke Pdf

An important reappraisal of the image of St Francis as it was recorded in literature, documents, architecture and art. Highly illustrated throughout, including colour and black and white plates, and containing key extracts from the major sources, this book bridges the boundaries of history and the history of art.

Author : Saint Francis (of Assisi)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017391331

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Novenas, hymns, and litanies, in honour of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare. By a Religious of the Order of Poor Clares, Author of “St. Francis and the Franciscans,” etc by Saint Francis (of Assisi) Pdf

Author : Bernardo Laviosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600013800

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The life of st. Mary Frances of the five wounds of Jesus Christ. From the Ital. by D. Ferris by Bernardo Laviosa Pdf

Author : Franciscans third order
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600102651

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Manual of the Third order of st. Francis of Assisi by Franciscans third order Pdf