We here offer, to the pious reflections of the faithful, the life of a man who proposed to himself to practise literally the precepts of the Gospel, to conform himself entirely to Jesus Christ crucified, and to inspire the whole world with God's love.
An edition of The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
(1918)
The Life And Legends Of Saint Francis Of Assisi
by Candide Chalippe and Hilarion Duerk
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
BOOK I
His birth — Prediction of his future greatness — His studies — He applies himself to commerce — His purity, and affection for the poor — He is taken prisoner — He falls sick — His charity increases towards the poor — He has a mysterious dream — He wishes to go to the war — Jesus Christ dissuades him — He is rapt in spirit — His conversion — He kisses a leper — Jesus Christ crucified appears to him — Salutary effects of this apparition — He goes to Borne — Mingles with the poor — Is tempted by the devil — A voice from heaven commands him to restore the Church of S. Peter Damian — His devotion to the passion of Jesus Christ — He takes some pieces of cloth from his father 's house, and sells them, to restore the Church of S. Damian — He escapes from the anger of his father, and retires to a cave — He appears in Assisi, where he is ill-treated — His father confines him — His mother delivers him, and he returns to S. Damian — He manifests his intention to his father, who appeals to justice, and cites him before the Bishop of Assisi — He renounces his inheritance, and gives back his clothes to his father — The poverty of his clothing — He is beaten by robbers — Retires to a monastery — They give him a hermit's habit — He devotes himself to the leprous — Receives the gift of healing, and returns to Assisi, where he searches for stone to restore the Church of Assisi — He toils at building as a laborer — He lives on alms — His father and brother exercise his patience — The victories he gains over himself — People begin to esteem and honor him — He predicts something which is fullfilled — He restores the Church of S. Peter and that of S. Mary of the Angels, or the Portiuncula — Dwells at S. Mary of the Angels, and is favored there with heavenly apparitions — He is called to the apostolical life — Renounces money and goes discalced — His poor and humble habit — God inspires him to preach — He weeps bitterly over the sufferings of Jesus Christ — Receives three disciples, and retires with them to a deserted cottage — He goes on a mission, and ids disciples accompany him — the way they are treated — He receives three other disciples — He makes them beg for alms — What he said to the Bishop of Assisi, ©a renouncing all his possessions — He predicts to the Emperor Otho the short duration of his glory — It is revealed to him that his sins are remitted — He is rapt in ecstasy, and predicts the extension of his Order — He makes several other predictions, and receives a seventh disciple — He proposes a new mission to them — The address he makes them on their preparation for, and conduct during, the mission — He returns near to Assisi, where he receives four more disciples — He assembles all his disciples — Composes a Buie, and goes to obtain the Pope's approval — He makes a marvellous conversion — He knows miraculously what will happen to him at Borne — He is at first repulsed by Pope Innocent III., but is afterwards received favorably — Difficulties on the approbation of his Buie — He overcomes them by an address he makes the Pope — The Pope approves his Buie, and accumulates favors on it — He leaves Borne with his friars for the valley of Spoleto — God provides for his necessities — He stops at a deserted church — Consults God on his mission, and returns to the cottage of Bivo-torto — His sufferings there — The instructions he gives — God shows him ' to his brethren under a most marvellous aspect — The church of S. Mary of the Angels is given to him — He establishes himself there with his Friars 1
BOOK II
He receives many novices — Instructs and models them — Sends them to different provinces of Italy — What he says on this occasion — He departs for Tuscany, and passes by Perugia, where he makes a prediction which is accomplished — Many young men enter his Order — They build a house for him near Cortona — His miraculous fast during Lent — He commands the devils, and they obey him — He cures many miraculously — He preaches at Florence — Makes a prediction — Preaches in various places in Tuscany — What his friars are doing in other places — He preaches the Lent at Assisi, with great fruit — He consecrates, to Jesus Christ, Clare, and, Agnes, her sister — Establishes Clare and Agnes in the Church of S. Damian — He erects a monastery there, the first one of his second Order, which he then instituted — He is troubled by a serious doubt, on which he consults his brethren — His doubt is cleared up by an oracle from heaven — He goes out to preach — Restores a blind girl to sight, and converts many worldly people — He sighs for martyrdom — Asks permission of the Pope to preach to the infidels — Makes conversions at Borne, and establishes his Order there — Returns to Assisi, and leaves for the Levant — Embarks, but is obliged to put into a harbor in Sclavonia — Goes by sea to Ancona — A miracle which God performs in his favor — He converts a celebrated poet — Returns to Tuscany, and to S. Mary of the Angels — He falls sick — Wonderfully humbles himself — Tries a vocation — Falls sick again and writes to all Christians — Departs for Spain and Africa, in search of martyrdom — His miracles and other particulars of his journey — His profound humility — He raises the dead — Count Orlando gives him Mount Alverna — God miraculously protects him — He preaches in Piedmont and passes' into Spain — Works a miraculous cure there — The king, Alphonso IX, permits him to establish his Order there — He receives houses there — A violent sickness prevents him going to Morocco — His actions whilst he is delayed in Spain — He returns to Italy — His route thither — He arrives at S. Mary of the Angels, and disapproves a building there — He goes to Mount Alverna — Is beaten by devils — Mortifies his sense, and taste — Makes water spring from a rock — Visits the mountain — Converts there a celebrated brigand — Leaves for Rome — Discovers some relics by revelation — Makes predictions, and performs miracles and conversions — Arrives at Rome whilst the Council of Lateran is sitting — The Pope declares to the Council that he has approved the Rule — He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, whither he returns — He holds the chapter and sends his friars to various countries — He thinks of going to Paris — Reunites an illustrious family that had been divided — Rejoices in his poverty and asks of God a greater love of holy poverty — 88. Peter and Paul appear to him at Rome — His alliance with S. Dominic — He goes to Florence, where Cardinal Hugolin dissuades him from going to Paris — He returns to the Valley of Spoleto, and sends three of his disciples to France — A celestial vision induces him to ask of the Pope a cardinal protector for his Order — What he says on this subject — He preaches before the Pope — What happened to him in the pulpit — The Pope gives him Cardinal Hugolin, as protector of the Order — He preaches in the Valley of Rieti — Delivers the country from two plagues, and makes some conversions there — The houses he builds there — He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, for the year 1219 — What he did during the year 1218 — Efficacy of his prayers — He wishes to pull down a new house which he found at S. Mary of the Angels 57
BOOK III
He goes to Perugia, to consult the cardinal protector — His opinion on the promotion of his friars to ecclesiastical dignities — He returns to S. Mary of the Angels — His thoughts on these dignities — More than five thousand Friars Minors are present at the chapter he had appointed — He addresses the assembly, and forbids them troubling themselves about their food — Assistance comes to him from all sides — He receives more than five hundred novices during this chapter — He forbids indiscreet mortifications — The devils are incensed against him and his Order — He cautions his friars, and upon that gives them some instructions — He humbles them to preserve them from vainglory — He confounds those who wish the Rule mitigated — He wishes not for privileges which can engender disputes — He gives his friars instructions about their conduct to ecclesiastics — He obtains from the Pope letters apostolical confirming the approval of the Order — What he decrees in the chapter — He sends his friars through the whole world — The travels of his Friars in various parts of the world — In Greece — In Africa — In Spain and Portugal — In France — In the Low Countries — He himself prepares to go to the Levant — On the government of the monastery of S. Damian, and other houses of the same order — He sends six of his friars to Morocco — What he says to them — He starts on his voyage to Syria, with twelve companions — He rejects a postulant too much attached to his parents — A house at Ancona is given to him — He appoints, by means of a child inspired by God, those who are to accompany him to Syria — He embarks at Ancona and anchors at the isle of Cyprus — Arrives at Acre — Distributes his companions in different parts of Syria, and comes to the army before Damietta — He arrives at the camp before Damietta, and predicts the ill-success of the battle the Crusaders are about to give — His prediction is accomplished — He finds out the sultan of Egypt — Announces to him the truths of the faith, and offers to throw himself into the fire to prove them — He refuses the sultan's presents — Is esteemed and respected — The good dispositions with which he inspires the sultan — He obtains permission to preach in his States — He receives some disciples from the army of the Crusaders — Visits the holy places — Some whole monasteries of religious embrace his Institute — He returns to Italy — Establishes his Order in various places — Preaches at Bologna with great success — What he says and does on seeing a house of his Order too much ornamented — He makes a retreat at Camaldoli — Returns to S. Mary of the Angels — Reads the thoughts of his companion — Confounds the vanity of Brother Elias — Abolishes the novelties introduced into the Order by Brother Elias — In a vision the fortunes of his Order are made known to him — He holds the chapter in which he deposes Brother Elias, and in his place substitutes Peter of Catania — He renounces the generalship — Will not receive anything from novices entering his Order — He learns the news of the martyrdom of the friars he had sent to Morocco — What he says on the subject of their martyrdom — The martyrdom of these friars is the cause of the vocation of S. Antony of Padua — His friars pass into England — He visits some convents — Receives the Vicar General's resignation, and re-appoints, by the command of God, Brother Elias to his place — - He holds a chapter, and sends missionaries to Germany 135
BOOK IV
S. Francis begins his Third Order of Penance — Draws up the rule for it — What his idea was in founding this Order — He returns to S. Mary of the Angels — Sends Agnes, the sister of Clare, to Florence, to be Abbess there — He obtains from Jesus Christ the Indulgence of S. Mary of the Angels or of the Portiuncula — Pope Honorius III. grants him the same indulgence — Clare and others, hearing him talk of God, are ravished in ecstasy — He cannot bear the distinction of persons which Brother Elias made — Makes a terrible prediction — He gives his blessings to seven of his brethren, to go and preach the faith to the Moors, and they are martyred — He makes a journey, which is attended with remarkable circumstances — Cures a cripple — Mixes with the poor, and eats with them — Foretells of an infant, that he would one day be Pope — He changes the bed of thorns into which S. Benedict had thrown himself, into a rose-bush, and performs other great miracles — Goes to honor the relics of S. Andrew, and those of S. Nicholas — Discovers a trick of the devil — He visits Mount Garganue — His presence silences a demoniac — He learns at S. Mary of the Angels the success of the German mission — Bids Antony preach — Gives Antony permission to teach theology to the brethren — Alexander Hales enters the Order — Jesus Christ appoints the day for the Indulgence of the Portiuncula — He obtains from the Pope a confirmation of the same day — Promulgates it, with seven bishops — He has a revelation about his Rule — God makes known to him that he must abridge it — The Holy Spirit dictates it to him — Some entreat him to moderate it — Jesus Christ tells him it must be kept to the very letter — His brethren receive it — He declares it comes from Jesus Christ, and speaks in praise of it — He obtains a bull from the Pope, in confirmation of the Rule — Is attacked by devils — Celebrates the feast of Christmas with much fervor — Our Lord appears to him as an infant — His sentiments on the celebration of feasts — Discovers a stratagem of the devil — He commands one of his dead brethren to cease working miracles — Draws up a rule for Clare and her daughters — Appears with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross while S. Antony was preaching — Foretells a conversion which immediately came about — He goes into retreat on Mount Alvernus — His contemplation and raptures — Jesus Christ promises him special favors — He fasts rigorously — A piece of his writing delivers his companion from a temptation — What he had to suffer from the devil — He prepares for martyrdom — He receives extraordinary favors in prayer — His perfect conformity to the will of God — Jesus Christ crucified appears to him under the figure of a Seraphim — Receives the impression of the wounds of Jesus Christ — He composes canticles full of the love of God — Tells his brethren of the Stigmata — They are seen and touched — He leaves Mount Alvernus, to return to S. Mary of the Angels — Cures a child of dropsy — Other miracles which he performed on the way — He strengthens himself with new fervor in the service of God — His patience in great sufferings — His desires for the salvation of souls — His prayer in suffering — God assures him of his salvation — He thanks Him in a canticle — He learns the time of his death, and rejoices at it — He has various illnesses, and suffers extreme pain — He multiplies the grapes in a vineyard — God gives him sensible consolation — A heated iron is applied to the temple, and he feels no pain from it — He weeps incessantly, and says he does so to expiate for his sins — He prefers the danger of losing his sight to restraining his tears — His gratitude towards his physician — A miracle is worked by some of his hair, in favor of this physician — He miraculously heals a canon — His sufferings diminish — Goes to preach — Drives away a devil — Foretells a sudden death, and it comes about — Cures St. Bonaventura in his infancy — All his sufferings increase — Causes to be found for the love of God what could not be found for money — They take him back to Assisi — They take him to Sienna — He answers difficult questions, and foretells several things — He causes the blessing which he gave to his brethren to be written — They take him to Celles, and thence to Assisi — The bishop has him taken to his palace — The state of his Order at the time of his last illness 267
BOOK V
The violence of his illness does not prevent him from exhorting his brethren — He is touched at the fatigue which his illness caused them — Thanks God for the pains he suffered — Dictates a letter to Clare and her daughters — Rejoices and thanks God for his approaching death — Blesses his children — Has himself carried to S. Mary of the Angels — Blesses the town of Assisi — Informs a pious widow of his approaching death — Blesses his brethren a second time, and makes them eat a bit of bread, blessed by his hand — Gives a special blessing to Bernard, the eldest of his children — What we may presume were his dispositions in receiving the last sacraments — He stretches himself naked on the bare ground — Desires to be buried in the place of execution — Exhorts his brethren — He has the praises of God sung when at the point of death — He speaks to his children, and blesses them for the last time — Has the passion of Jesus Christ read to him — He recites the 141st psalm, and dies after the last verse — Miraculous proofs of his beatitude — State of his body after death — The Stigmata are seen and touched publicly — His obsequies — Clare and her daughters see and kiss the Stigmata — He is buried at Assisi, in the church of S. George — The circular written after his death — His canonization — The Church of S. Francis at Assisi — He is buried there — Researches are made to find the sacred body — The mission of St. Francis — The fruits of his labor.
Devotion of S. Francis towards Jesus Christ crucified — To what a degree he loved poverty — How great was the austerity of his life — His humility — His obedience — His gift of prayer and contemplation — His love of God — His sentiments of filial love on the mystery of the Incarnation — On the fast of Jesus Christ in the desert — On the mystery of the Eucharist — S. Francis, in his humility, would not be made priest — His devotion towards the Mother of God — Towards Che angels and saints — His charity towards his neighbor — His zeal for the salvation of souls — His affection for the poor — The affection of his heart for all creatures — The pains he took to lead his brethren to perfection — His tender charity towards his brethren — His discretion and wisdom in the government of the Order — His supernatural and acquired knowledge — The efficacy of his words — His supernatural and miraculous gifts — He drives away devils — Brings the dead to life — Heals the sick — Has the gift of prophecy and discernment of spirits — He commands animals, and is obeyed — He performs many other miraculous actions — The great honors which were paid to him — His character and appearance — In what sense he was simple 299
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