Chapters (595)
- LIFE OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
- PAUL SABATIER
- Quivere monachus est nihil reputat esse suum nisi citharam Gioacchino di Fiore in Apoc. 182 a 2
- TRANSLATED BY LOUISE SEYMOUR HOUGHTON
- 1919
- TO THE STRASBURGHERS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- FOOTNOTES
- LIFE OF ST. FRANCIS
- CHAPTER I
- YOUTH
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER II
- STAGES OF CONVERSION Spring 1204—Spring 1206
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER III
- THE CHURCH ABOUT 1209
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER IV
- STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPH Spring of 1206—February 24, 1209
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER V
- FIRST YEAR OF APOSTOLATE Spring of 1209—Summer of 1210
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VI
- ST. FRANCIS AND INNOCENT III Summer 12101
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VII
- RIVO-TORTO 1210—1211
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VIII
- PORTIUNCULA 1211
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER IX
- SANTA CLARA
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER X
- FIRST ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE INFIDELS Autumn, 1212—Summer, 1215
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XI
- THE INNER MAN AND WONDER-WORKING
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XII
- THE CHAPTER-GENERAL OF 12171
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIII
- ST. DOMINIC AND ST. FRANCIS The Egyptian Mission. Summer 1218—Autumn 1220
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE CRISIS OF THE ORDER1 Autumn, 1220
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XV
- THE RULE OF 12211
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE BROTHERS MINOR AND LEARNING Autumn, 1221—December, 1223
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE STIGMATA 1224
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XVIII
- THE CANTICLE OF THE SUN Autumn, 1224—Autumn, 1225
- Incipiunt Laudes Creaturarum Quas fecit Beatus Franciscus ad laudem et honorem Dei Cum esset infirmus ad Sanctum Damianum.
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIX
- THE LAST YEAR September, 1225—End of September, 1226
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XX
- FRANCIS'S WILL AND DEATH End of September—October 3, 1226
- WILL (LITERAL TRANSLATION).
- FOOTNOTES
- CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SOURCES
- SUMMARY
- CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SOURCES
- FOOTNOTES
- I
- ST. FRANCIS'S WORKS
- FOOTNOTES
- II
- BIOGRAPHIES PROPERLY SO CALLED I. Preliminary Note
- II. First Life by Thomas of Celano7
- III. Survey of the History of the Order from 1230-1244
- IV. Legend of the Three Companions30
- V. Fragments of the Suppressed Part of the Legend of the Three Companions
- VI. Second Life by Thomas of Celano54
- First Part
- VII. Second Life by Thomas of Celano60
- Second Part
- VIII. Notes on a Few Secondary Documents
- a. Celano's Life of St. Francis for Use in the Choir.
- b. Life of St. Francis in Verse.
- c. Biography of St. Francis by Giovanni di Ceperano.
- d. Life of St. Francis by Brother Julian.
- IX. Legend of St. Bonaventura
- X. De Laudibus of Bernard of Besse87
- FOOTNOTES
- III DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS
- I. Donation of the Verna
- II. Registers of Cardinal Ugolini
- III. Bulls
- FOOTNOTES
- IV CHRONICLERS OF THE ORDER
- I. Chronicle of Brother Giordano di Giano1
- II. Eccleston: Arrival of the Friars in England5
- III. Chronicle of Fra Salimbeni9
- IV. The Chronicle of the Tribulations by Angelo Careno10
- V. The Fioretti25
- Appendices of the Fioretti
- VI. Chronicle of the XXIV. Generals36
- VII. The Conformities of Bartolommeo of Pisa37
- VIII. Chronicle of Glassberger57
- IX. Chronicle of Mark of Lisbon58
- FOOTNOTES
- V CHRONICLES OUTSIDE OF THE ORDER
- I. Jacques de Vitry
- II. Thomas of Spalato
- III. Divers Chronicles
- FOOTNOTES
- APPENDIX CRITICAL STUDY OF THE STIGMATA AND THE INDULGENCE OF AUGUST 2
- I. The Stigmata
- II. The Pardon of August 2d, Called Indulgence of Portiuncula9
- FOOTNOTES
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