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Saint Francis of Assisi

Author: G K Chesterton; Bernard Mayes
Publisher: Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio Books, 1992.
Edition/Format:   Audiobook on Cassette : Cassette recording : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche. Yet Francis also acknowledged the mystic responsibility to communicate his divine experience. Chesterton examines the existence of the pure eccentric and the devout mystic in one man, offering an  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Audiobooks
Biography
Named Person: Francis, of Assisi Saint
Material Type: Biography, Audio book, etc.
Document Type: Sound Recording
All Authors / Contributors: G K Chesterton; Bernard Mayes
ISBN: 0786101288 9780786101283
OCLC Number: 25847731
Notes: Container title.
Unabridged.
Performer(s): Read by Bernard Mayes.
Description: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 6 hr.) : analog.
Responsibility: by G.K. Chesterton.

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This biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche. Yet Francis also acknowledged the mystic responsibility to communicate his divine experience. Chesterton examines the existence of the pure eccentric and the devout mystic in one man, offering an understanding of Saint Francis in both body and soul.

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