Father Candide Chalippe, an eighteenth-century French Franciscan, gathered the early sources into a full life of Francis: his youth in Assisi, his conversion and embrace of poverty, the founding of the Friars Minor and the Poor Clares, his preaching, the stigmata and his death. This edition was revised in 1917 by Father Hilarion Duerk for the Third Order.
A devotional life rich in the legends and miracles that grew around the saint. Download the free EPUB.