St Francis of Assisi
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · March 23, 2021
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- Who it’s for
- Chesterton’s account invites you to consider how a life of privilege turned toward religious devotion.
- Genres
- Saints & Sainthood, Religious Lives, Catholicism
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, March 23, 2021
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St. Francis of Assisi is perhaps the most important of the non-apostle saints. He was born to wealth and privilege in Assisi, Italy in 1181. As a youth he dreamed of military glory and lived the decadent lifestyle one would expect from of a wealthy, young Italian man. In 1202 Francis went off to war and was subsequently captured and spent a year of hardship in Collestrada as a prisoner of war.
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In 1205 he set off to war again, but this time God sent him a vision and he returned home and took up a religion. What followed was a most remarkable life. St. Francis founded an order in the Catholic Church devoted to helping those in poverty. No other saint embodied the teaching of Christ in quite such an emblematic way. Here G. K. Chesterton gives us the definitive biography of this most amazing man.
Faith and Change
Chesterton’s account invites you to consider how a life of privilege turned toward religious devotion.
Come here for
- A saint’s life at the meeting point of faith, privilege, and poverty
- A layered path into Catholic history and spiritual biography
Expect
- A biographical portrait of St. Francis of Assisi
- Religious history centered on poverty, faith, and the Catholic Church
Where it sits
| Religious Lives | 81% |
|---|---|
| Saints & Sainthood | 65% |
| Catholicism | 36% |
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Publisher categories
- Religious Lives
- Medieval History
- Catholicism
- Authors
- G.K. Chesterton
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 23, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Religious Lives