Francis: by James Cowan

Author: James Cowan

A Saint's Way

Internationally acclaimed author James Cowan takes us on a journey to beautiful Umbria in northern Italy where the landscape that inspired Saint Francis still exists today. Readers will discover the chapels and caves, the monasteries and grottos, where Francis forged his unique spiritual path.
Here, of course, is a portrait of the man who chose the dusty road over book learning, who communicated effortlessly with animals, who crafted universally appealing prayers now recited the world over, who became the first to bear the wounds of Christ, and whose example showed us the way to a life of meditation and self-denial.

This volume, though, is not merely a history of Saint Francis' life, but an attempt to enter into the spirit of the man and unlock his larger significance. James Cowan explores new interpretations of Francis's uncompromising ascetism, the internal conflict of a man who chose the active life over the purely contemplative, a man whose restless spirituality took him to the court of Sultan Malik al-Kamil during the time of a fiercely fought battle of the Crusades, a man whose relationship with his spiritual sister Clare may be seen as influenced by fin d'amour and Francis's youthful attachment to the songs of French troubadours, and a man who requested, in his final days, that his Roman patroness Giocoma di Settisole send him almond and honey cookies and "cloth the color of ashes to cover my body."

Francis: A Saint's Way places the reader in the geographical, cultural, and historical context of the great man of Assisi and also renders him anew for the modern world.

192 pages

Francis: by James Cowan Author: James Cowan
	Item#	Type		Price
	0764807072	Hardcover	St. Francis	15.95
A Saint's Way: Internationally acclaimed author James Cowan takes us on a journey to beautiful Umbria in northern Italy where the landscape that inspired Saint Francis still exists today.

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