Francis and Clare : a true story /

Explores how Francis was first found by God and then joined by Clare despite the violent objections of her family, and delves into a variety of issues they faced including the treatment of lepers in medieval society, corruption in the thirteenth-century Church, and changing attitudes toward the crea...

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Main Author: Sweeney, Jon M., 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • About their relationship
  • To kiss a leper
  • Rebuilding the church
  • Who is my father?
  • No frowning saints
  • Trying to be like Jesus
  • Jugglers for God
  • Renewing the bonds of creation
  • Being crucified with Christ
  • The canticle of the creatures
  • The sepulcher of St. Francis
  • Burning books
  • The rise and fall of the spirituals
  • After Clare's death
  • Light in the dark ages.