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.
INDEX
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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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The Canticle of the Sun, |
297 |
CHAPTER XIX. |
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The Last Year, |
308 |
CHAPTER XX. |
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Francis's Will and Death, |
333 |
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Critical Study of the Sources, |
347 |
APPENDIX. |
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Critical Study of the Stigmata and of the Indulgence of August 2, |
433 |
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