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Paul Sabatier, Life of St. Francis of Assisi (Scribner's, 1905). Johannes Jurgensen, St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography (translated by T. O’Conor Sloane; Longmans, 1912). Arnaldo Fortini, Francis of Assisi (translated by Helen Moak, Crossroad, 1981). Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis (Ο Φτωχούλης του Θεού, in Greek; 1954)
The Church of St. Francis of Assisi was built in 1661 by the Portuguese in the Portuguese Viceroyalty of India. [1] The Church of St. Francis of Assisi, together with a convent, was established by eight Portuguese Franciscan friars who landed in Goa in 1517. [2] [3] [4] It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Churches and convents of Goa.
In 1865, at the request of the Franciscan Fathers, three Sisters came to the parish of St. Francis of Assisi, New York City to serve immigrants, orphans, and the poor. The motherhouse is in Peekskill, New York. [57] In 1933 the sisters founded Ladycliff College in Highland Falls, New York, next to the United States Military Academy in West ...
The Oratory of San Francesco Piccolino, or the Chapel of Little St Francis is a small devotional chapel in the centre of Assisi, near the Chiesa Nuova held by pious tradition to be the birthplace of Francis of Assisi. [1] [2] Many have falsely considered it to be the saints childhood home. [3]
Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint is a book by André Vauchez on Francis of Assisi. The book was first published in French in 2009, with its English translation by Michael Cusato published in the US in 2012 by Yale University Press. The book has been reviewed in several magazines and scholarly journals. [1] [2] [3 ...
The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died.
St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1890, is a Catholic church at 4625 Springfield Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Its cornerstone laid in 1907, [ 1 ] the Guastavino tiled dome of the de Sales parish has been an icon in its neighborhood.
Bernard of Quintavalle (died 1241) was the first disciple of St. Francis of Assisi. [1] Bernard was declared as the Minorum Ordinis prima plantula, the "First fruits of the Minor Orders". He accompanied Francis on a number of missionary journeys and served as Minister Provincial in Spain .