In his Leggenda Maggiore (Greater Legend), St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio offers a key to the theological understanding of the Stigmata, received by Francis of Assisi ...

Saint Francis is described most often only from an ascetic and penitential perspective; little if any attention is paid regarding the food, which the saint did not ...

Chapter VII of "Fioretti" tells of a Lent that Francis wanted to spend in total solitude on an islet of Lake Trasimeno, near Perugia. Throughout the period from ...

In his youth Francis was struck with a long illness (FF 323 and 1030), often explained as the result of his one-year incarceration in one or more of the terrible ...

Francis of Assisi was, for the men of his time, a savvy communicator. In his two "Lives" of the saint, Thomas of Celano tells of Francis' style of preaching. In ...

Although he lived centuries before the Protestant Reformation and the painful rifts that marked the Church with the wars of religion that followed, Saint Francis ...

The motto of St Benedict "ora et labora" placed within the context of the European economic system 'two' distinct actions -- prayer and work -- which take place ...

In chapter XXIII of the Franciscan Rule 'non bollata', can be found a long and heartfelt exhortation to prayer and thanksgiving by Francis, which he addresses to ...

"Francis of Assisi cannot be reduced to one definition or to a single dimension, because the hermeneutical key that 'explains' him is his conversion to the Gospel ...