قراءة كتاب Life of St. Francis of Assisi
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LIFE OF
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
BY
PAUL SABATIER
Quivere monachus est nihil
reputat esse suum nisi citharam
Gioacchino di Fiore in Apoc. 182 a 2
TRANSLATED BY
LOUISE SEYMOUR HOUGHTON
LONDON
HODDER & STOUGHTON
1919
Copyright, 1894, by Charles Scribner's Sons, for the
United States of America.
Printed by the Scribner Press
New York, U.S.A.
TO THE STRASBURGHERS
Friends!
At last here is this book which I told you about so long ago. The result is small indeed in relation to the endeavor, as I, alas! see better than anyone. The widow of the Gospel put only one mite into the alms-box of the temple, but this mite, they tell us, won her Paradise. Accept the mite that I offer you to-day as God accepted that of the poor woman, looking not at her offering, but at her love, Feci quod potui, omnia dedi.
Do not chide me too severely for this long delay, for you are somewhat its cause. Many times a day at Florence, at Assisi, at Rome, I have forgotten the document I had to study. Something in me seemed to have gone to flutter at your windows, and sometimes they opened.... One evening at St. Damian I forgot myself and remained long after sunset. An old monk came to warn me that the sanctuary was closed. "Per Bacco!" he gently murmured as he led me away, all ready to receive my confidence, "sognava d'amore o di tristitia?" Well, yes. I was dreaming of love and of sadness, for I was dreaming of Strasbourg.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction, | xi |
CHAPTER I. |
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Youth, | 1 |
CHAPTER II. |
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Stages of Conversion, | 15 |
CHAPTER III. |
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The Church about 1209, | 28 |
CHAPTER IV. |
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Struggles and Triumphs, | 53 |
CHAPTER V. |
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First Year of Apostolate, | 71 |
CHAPTER VI. |
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St. Francis and Innocent III., | 88 |
CHAPTER VII. |
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Rivo-Torto, | 103 |
CHAPTER VIII. |
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Portiuncula, | 120 |
CHAPTER IX. |
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Santa Clara, | 147 |
CHAPTER X. |
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First Attempts to reach the Infidels, | 168 |
CHAPTER XI. |
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The Inner Man and Wonder-working, | 183 |
CHAPTER XII. |
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The Chapter-General of 1217, | 198 |
CHAPTER XIII. |
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St. Dominic and St. Francis, | 217 |
CHAPTER XIV. |
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The Crisis of the Order, | 239 |
CHAPTER XV. |
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The Rule of 1221, | 252 |
CHAPTER XVI. |
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The Brothers Minor and Learning, | 271 |
CHAPTER XVII. |
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The Stigmata, | 287 |
CHAPTER XVIII. |
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