A book to be read and reread for the sheer beauty of its story Chesterton, G.K. Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York Doubleday 1957 monographic en English

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Chesterton has rekindled for us the medieval spirit, with its buoyancy, its childlike soul, its pervasive faith, and he has made us see St. Francis in the light of that spirit... "Mr. Chesterton's portrait is a thing of beauty. We see St. Francis in his humanity, in his boyish freedom from self-consciousness, in his astounding suddenness of action, in his poetic simplicity. He was the earliest of the Italian poets, who talked familiarly with flowers and streams and birds, and even called the wolf his 'brother? With a kind of divine abandon he gave himself up to the service of the poor, happy in possessing nothing. He loved God and all the works of His hands with a love so personal and so absorbing that this cold-hearted age of ours cannot begin to comprehend it. "To read this fascinating little book is to see something newly appealing in St. Francis-and in Gilbert Chesterton." 0385029004 Perpustakaan STTB Bandung Theological Seminary 271 Che s E92009867 Non Fiction 271 Che s St._Francis_of_Assisi.jpeg 16018 2013-11-19 15:47:54 2026-05-07 16:20:39 machine generated