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Table of Contents
New Releases 2
Recently Released 3
Works of St. Bonaventure Series 4
studies on bonaventure 7
John Duns Scotus 8
Francis and the Early Franciscan Movement 10
Clare and the Poor Sisters 14
Franciscan History 16
Spirit and Life Series 19
Franciscan Heritage Series 21
St. Bonaventure University 22
Franciscan Studies & Faith Formation 23
Washington Theological Union Series 26
Classic works of Franciscan Institute Publications 28
Journals 29
Founded in 1939, the Franciscan Institute stands as the preeminent center
in North America of teaching, research, and publication on the history,
spirituality and intellectual life of the Franciscan movement. Most noteworthy
among the Franciscan Institute’s publications are series devoted
to texts, philosophy, theology and spirituality. It also publishes Franciscan
Studies, an annual scholarly review containing articles in the major languages
of Western Europe on Franciscan philosophical and theological
thought and history; The Cord, a popular quarterly review of Franciscan
spirituality; and Greyfriars Review, which makes available in English translations
of important articles of Franciscan academic interest, published
quarterly.
About the University: St. Bonaventure is in the top 15 percent of institutions
in U.S.News & World Report’s 2010 ranking of Northern universities
that offer master’s degrees. It has a history of accomplishment and service
that extends back 150 years. At the heart of St. Bonaventure University is
the Franciscan affirmation of the dignity and worth of the entire created
order. Fundamental to this vision is an awareness that it is within relationships
and community that individuals discover and develop their potential.
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New Releases
Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings
of Francis and Clare of Assisi -
Edited by Michael W. Blastic, OFM, Jay
Hammond, PhD and Wayne Hellmann,
OFM Conv.
These three volumes provide assistance to
those interested in a deeper understanding
of the writings of the Early Documents –
The Writings of Francis and Clare. The authors,
scholars interested in and committed
to the Franciscan tradition, have brought
contemporary research together, applied
it to each of the specific texts, and offered
their own perspective. First, the essays define
the status questionis by informing the
reader about the state of current research
on each of the texts considered. Second,
the essays are intended to introduce the
reader to these texts within the dimensions
of their multilayered contextual-historical
framework. The hope of those involved in
producing these studies is to help others
learn how to read, interpret, and apply
these newly translated texts to enrich the
historical understanding, theological vision,
and practical living out of the Gospel
message.
Volume 1
The Writings of
Francis: Letters and
Prayers
2011: 336 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-230-4
$29.95
Volume 2
The Writings of
Francis:
Rules, Testament and
Admonitions
2011: 336 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-232-8
$29.95
Volume 3
The Writings of Clare
2011: 144p.
Pb 978-1-57659-233-5
$19.95
The Writings of Francis of Assisi: Letters
and Prayers features the scholarly work
of Luigi Pellegrini, Jean- François Godet-
Calogeras, Michael W. Blastic, Michael F.
Cusato, Jay M. Hammond, and Laurent
Gallant.
The Writings of Francis of Assisi: Rules,
Testament and Admonitions contains
essays by William J. Short, Michael W.
Blastic, Jay M. Hammond and J.A. Wayne
Hellmann.
The Writings of Clare of Assisi presents
the latest scholarship by Ingrid Peterson,
Lezlie Knox, Michael W. Blastic and Jean-
François Godet-Calogeras.
Peter of John Olivi:
Commentary on the
Gospel of Mark
translations and introduction
by Robert J.
Karris, OFM
Peter of John Olivi
introduces his commentary
on Mark by
explaining the brevity
of his treatment. His Commentaries on
Matthew and John lie behind him. In the
light of that work, he proposes, we can
read Mark easily. And so he divides and
summarizes Mark, pausing only at passages
particular to Mark’s account.
June 2011: 112 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-234-2 $19.95
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New Releases/Coming Soon

Recently Released
Dying, As A Franciscan
Spririt and Life
Volume 15
Many of us within the
Franciscan Family of
the 21st Century –
friars, sisters, seculars
and all those associated
in any way with the
Poverello of Assisi –
find ourselves surrounded by those within
our own communities and families who
are in need of similar accompaniment and
companionship as they walk the road toward
the fullness of life. And each one of us, one
day, will walk the same path ourselves.
2011 118 p.
ISBN: 978-1-57659-221-2 $19.95
Words Made Flesh:
Essays Honoring Kenan
B. Osborne, OFM
Spririt and Life
Volume 16
Written by some of the
finest scholars in the
world today – Joseph
Chinnici, Bishop John
Cummins, William J.
Short, †Allan B. Wolter, Zachary Hayes, †Regis
A. Duffy, Michael D. Guinan, Johannes B.
Freyer, Antonie Vos and Mary Beth Ingham
– these different approaches to sacraments,
ecclesiology, Christology, and anthropology
testify to Kenan Osborne’s academic life, his
plumbing of theological tradition for new
insights, and his wide breadth of learning and
interests.
2011: 208 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-224-3 $19.95
Greed, Lust and Power:
Franciscan Strategies
for Building a More
Just World
Features presentations
by Joseph Nangle,
Michael Crosby, Darleen
Pryds and Vincent
Cushing. As our
guides in this process
of conscientization, the speakers – whose
diverse expertise and experiences exemplified
the distinctly Franciscan strategies they
would develop and present – challenged the
Symposium’s participants to engage with the
world in a way that is both informed by the
teachings of the Gospel and guided by the
principles of social analysis: observe, judge,
and act. In this way, we are able to discern
what our Franciscan responses to the needs of
a world infected by greed, lust, and disordered
uses of power should be, and so develop
strategies capable of affecting those responses.
2011: 72 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-220-5 $14.00
Colette of Corbie (1381-
1447): Learning and
Holiness
by Elisabeth Lopez,
Translated by Joanna
Waller
Released for the
first time in English.
Lopez’s book, originally
published in French
in 1994, is a serious study of Colette and her
reform movement of the Poor Clare Sisters.
Colette of Corbie is one of the few texts written
depicting the historical context and spiritual
depth of the reform which offered women of
the Second Order the opportunity to return to
the observance of the Rule of St. Clare.
2010: 640 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-217-5 $50.00
Ebook 978-1-57659-219-9 $24.95
EPDF 978-1-57659-218-2 $24.95
Francis of Assisi:
Heritage and Heirs
Eight Centuries Later
by Thaddée Matura,
OFM, Translated by
Paul Lachance, OFM.
In this thoughtprovoking
book
Thaddée Matura offers
a new way of looking
at how the Franciscan tradition was adapted
and contemporized during the centuries. In
a clear and accessible style, he shows how the
Franciscan Family has gotten to the stage it
now enjoys and shows how liberating history
can be and is. In 2004, Franciscan Institute
Publications reprinted Matura’s Francis of
Assisi: The Message in His Writings. (p.11)
2010: 109 p.
ISBN#: 978-1-57659-214-4 $19.95
Recently Released
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st. bonaventure
St Bonaventure (1221 – 15 July 1274), born John of
Fidanza, was a major figure in medieval scholastic theology
and philosophy, the seventh Minister General of the
Order of Friars Minor. He was named Cardinal Bishop
of Albano in 1273 and died, working for church reform
at the Council of Lyons, in 1274. He was canonized on
14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor
of the Church in the year 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is
known as the “Seraphic Doctor”. Many writings believed
in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the
name Pseudo-Bonaventura.
Works
of
st. bonaventure
The Franciscan Institute is exceptionally proud to present the Works of St. Bonaventure
series. This series provides annotated translations from the Latin originals of the works of
St. Bonaventure for students and seekers who wish to steep themselves in the rich theological
vision of this medieval giant. Begun in 1996 and now totaling 15 volumes with
several volumes in development, this is the definitive series for the best and most current
English-language translations of Bonaventure’s work. Works of St. Bonaventure, Robert J.
Karris, OFM, general editor.
Volume I
On the Reduction of the
Arts to Theology (De
Reductione Artium ad
Theologiam)
Reprinted with a revised
translation, introduction
and commentary by
Zachary Hayes, OFM
In his treatise, De Reductione Artium
ad Theologiam, a work of remarkable
brevity and originality of expression, St.
Bonaventure deals with the relation of the
finite to the infinite, of the natural to the
supernatural in a way which well establishes
his preeminence as a mystic, a philosopher,
and a theologian. This translation and
commentary brings to the modern day
reader an appreciation of the return of all
created things to God.
1996: 70 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-043-0 $14.95
Volume II
Itinerarium Mentis in
Deum (Journey of the
Soul Into God)
(†)Philotheus Boehner,
OFM and Zachary
Hayes, OFM
This new translation of
the Itinerarium signals
a milestone in Bonaventurian scholarship
in North America. Based on the famed
1956 Boehner edition, this volume presents
the text with a new inclusive-language
translation, authoritative notes by Boehner
with a new translation of their Latin content,
plus the Latin text of the critical edition
interfaced with the English text.
2002: 225 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-044-7 $17.00
Hc 978-1-57659-185-7 $25.00
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Volume III
Saint Bonaventure’s
Disputed Questions
on the Mystery of the
Trinity
Introduction and Translation
by Zachary Hayes, OFM
This translation makes
Bonaventure’s study on
the Trinity available in English for the first
time. A leading Bonaventure scholar and
theologian, Zachary Hayes, OFM, explicates
the Trinitarian thought of the Seraphic
Doctor and situates these Quaestiones disputatae
in the history of theology.
1979: 273 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-045-4 $15.00
Volume IV
St. Bonaventure’s Disputed
Questions on the
Knowledge of Christ
Zachary Hayes, OFM
The first English translation
of this work. Bonaventure’s
study is done
in the medieval scholastic
style of disputed questions and shows how
he, as scholar, was at the center of what
Christianity is about.
1992: 202 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-046-1 $15.00
Volume V
St. Bonaventure’s
Writings Concerning the
Franciscan Order
Dominic V. Monti, OFM
After introducing the
reader to Bonaventure as
General Minister of the
Franciscan Order, this
volume presents twenty
documents and helpful introductions to
their importance. 1994: 281 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-047-8 $15.00
Volume VI
Collations on the Ten
Commandments
Paul Spaeth
The Collations on the Ten
Commandments
addresses three important
aspects of St. Bonaventure’s
work. The
work shows a reflection of Bonaventure as
a Bible expositor, a theologian/philosopher,
and as a preacher.
1995: 101 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-005-8 $15.00
Volume VII
St. Bonaventure’s Commentary
on Ecclesiastes
Robert J. Karris, OFM
and Campion
Murray, OFM
An important text for
historians of theology
and philosophy. This volume illustrates
how Bonaventure was influenced by the
Book of Ecclesiastes.
2005: 461 p.
Pb978-1-57659-197-0 $40.00
Volume VIII
Commentary on the
Gospel of Luke, Part I:
Chapters 1-8.
Robert J. Karris, OFM
This highly readable
translation with its invaluable
footnotes and
union of medieval commentary
with contemporary exegesis will
appeal to Franciscans, Lucan scholars,
preachers, and will allow for quiet moments
of Lectio Divina.
2001: 849 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-179-6 $50.00
Commentary on the
Gospel of Luke, Part II:
Chapters 9-16. (Part 2 of
3 parts).
Robert J. Karris, OFM
This translation offers
insight not only into the
riches of many Church
Fathers on whose
thought he draws, but in its finished form,
this publication will be an excellent resource
for teachers and for preachers, as well as for
many who reflect on this Gospel in search of
spiritual insight.
2003: 897 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-183-3 $50.00
Commentary on the
Gospel of Luke, Part III:
Chapters 17-24. (Part 3
of 3 parts).
Robert J. Karris, OFM
As a work of historical
theologizing, Bonaventure’s
commentary is an
invaluable witness to its
age as well as to the biblical interpretation
that was long a mainstay of Catholic hermeneutics
and preaching.
2004: 928 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-184-0 $50.00
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Volume IX
Breviloquium
Dominic V. Monti, OFM
This is Bonaventure’s
comprehensive presentation
of Christian doctrine
in a form suitable
for instructional purposes.
It can be used by anyone with an interest
in the writings of the Seraphic Doctor.
2005: 329 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-199-4 $40.00
Volume X
Writings on the
Spiritual Life
edited by F. Edward
Coughlin, OFM
An Introductory Essay
presents a detailed
overview of Bonaventure’s
spiritual theology,
followed by the text of Threefold Way, as
well as lesser known but vibrant meditation
texts.
2006: 434 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-162-8 $40.00
Volume XI
Bonaventure’s
Commentary on the
Gospel of John
Edited by Robert Karris,
OFM
For the first time Bonaventure’s
Commentary
on the Gospel of John is now accessible in
readable English, with helpful notes. Karris
brings us Bonaventure’s interpretations
which are often surprisingly contemporary,
theologically attuned, pastorally sensitive
and textually oriented.
2007: 1110 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-143-7 $70.00
Volume XII
The Sunday Sermons of
St. Bonaventure
Edited by Timothy J.
Johnson, PhD
The twelfth volume of the
BTTS Series provides the
careful reader with rich
meditation through the liturgical year as
well as new insights into the spiritual and
apostolic formation of Bonaventure’s Franciscan
confreres.
2008: 583 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-145-1 $50.00
Volume XIII
Disputed Questions on
Evangelical Perfection
Translated by Thomas Reist,
OFM and Robert J.
Karris, OFM
Written at the height of
the Mendicant Controversy
at the University
of Paris (1250-1256). While this treatise
teaches that the Franciscan friars follow the
Gospel by being humble, poor, chaste, and
obedient, it is also Bonaventure’s vigorous
defense of the mendicant way of life against
opponents such as William of Saint-Amour
whose apocalyptic polemic painted the followers
of the Poverello as forerunners of the
Antichrist.
2008: 360 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-146-8 $45.00
Volume XIV
Collations on the Seven
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Translated by Zachary
Hayes, OFM
The first English translation
of St. Bonaventure’s
Collationes de septem donis
Spiritus Sancti to appear in
print, this fourteenth volume in the series
is the crowning achievement of Zachary
Hayes, a pre-eminent commentator on Bonaventure’s
thought for four decades.
2008: 222 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-147-5 $40.00
Volume XV
Defense of the Mendicants
Translated by Jose de Vink
and Robert J. Karris, OFM
In twelve chapters St. Bonaventure
defends the
Franciscan way of life
against the attacks of the
Parisian Master, Gerard of Abbeville. Bonaventure
clarifies the meaning of evangelical
perfection, gospel poverty, and the
imitation of Christ. This volume is a companion
to Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions
on Evangelical Perfection (Works of St. Bonaventure
XIII).
2010: 423 p.
Pb 978-1-57569-159-8 $44.95
Fifteen Volume Set:
HC 978-1-57659-229-8 $450.00
($611.90 Value)
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studies on bonaventure
Bonaventure: Mystic of
God’s Word
Edited by Timothy J.
Johnson, PhD
A collection and translation
of selected spiritual
texts of Bonaventure, this
book is a great introductory
tool for understanding
the essence of Bonaventure’s theology,
rooted as it is in the mystery of the Word
of God.
1999: 176 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-211-3 $14.95
Divine and Created
Order in Bonaventure’s
Theology
J.A. Wayne Hellmann,
OFM Conv. Translated
and edited with an appendix
by J.M. Hammond, PhD
This volume addresses the
hierarchical thought patterns
of Bonaventure’s theology within the
framework of “order.” The author concludes
that all orders are embraced by one order
of charity, and the following of Christ to
the cross is the key to the divine order of
charity.
2001: 311p.
Pb 978-1-57659-173-4 $24.95
The Franciscan Leader:
A Modern Version of the
Six Wings of the Seraph.
An Anonymous Franciscan
Treatise in the Tradition
of St. Bonaventure
Translated by Philip
O’Mara
This short work has been
used in religious communities for centuries
to study the virtues of a religious superior.
Its popularity stems from its practical
moral psychology, its brief and memorable
allegory, and its happy use of abundant
scripture.
2007: 103 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-126-0 $9.95
The Hidden Center
Zachary Hayes, OFM
2000, reprint of 1992 and
1979 printings.
This work presents the
development of St. Bonaventure’s
Christology
from his early Commentary
on the Sentences of
Peter Lombard to his last conferences on
the Hexaemeron.
2000: 222 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-064-5 $12.95
Introduction to The
Works of Bonaventure
J. Guy Bougerol, OFM
A French Franciscan
scholar and eminent
Franciscan authority,
Bougerol provides a
major key to the understanding
of the Works
of Bonaventure. Here, in language that is
learned but never unclear, he offers an exposition
of the time in which Bonaventure
lived, the cultural currents that influenced
him, and the particular circumstances in
which each of his works originated.
1964: 262 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0525-9 $16.00
Psychology of Love According
to St. Bonaventure
by Robert P. Prentice,
OFM
An analysis of St. Bonaventure’s
doctrine on
purely human, natural
love.
1957: 160 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-096-6 $9.95
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John Duns Scotus
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Scotus for Dunces:
An Introduction to
the Subtle Doctor
Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ
This book is a “simple
guide” to theological and
philosophical aspects of the
thought of the medieval Franciscan John
Duns Scotus. Ingham provides an insightful
and creative introduction to his philosophical
and theological principles, which
are explored with clarity and demonstrated
by the use of numerous practical examples.
2003: 240 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-187-1 $19.95
The Harmony
of Goodness
Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ
In The Harmony of Goodness,
Ingham presents
the ethical vision of John
Duns Scotus (1265-1308)
in an integrated manner, bringing together
aspects of virtue, moral reasoning, free
choice, rational judgment, and spirituality
as parts of a whole human life. This work
examines the ethical thought of Scotus according
to his notion of mutuality or relationship.
This study brings to light Scotus’
integrated vision of human moral living.
1996: 159 p.
Pb 978-0-81990-969-5 $19.95
The Ethical Theory
of John Duns Scotus
By Thomas Shannon
To some, the examination
of the ethical theory of
John Duns Scotus may
seem an arcane perhaps
even foolhardy exercise.
Scotus lived over 700 years ago; his thought
is difficult to grasp; many themes in his
analysis of issues seem to be or actually
are convoluted. Additionally, many have
not heard of Scotus or, if they have, it is
primarily as the one who opposed Aquinas
and came off second best. Even his
beatification in 1993 was not widely noted
outside of the Franciscan community. In
this book, the author discovers areas of
congruence and insight between Scotus’s
thought and several contemporary issues.
1995: 151 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0966-4 $12.95
John Duns Scotus
John Duns Scotus:
Mary’s Architect
By Allan B. Wolter, OFM
and Blane O’Neil, OFM
The Subtle Doctor, as
Scotus is called, presents
a model of Mary the
mother of Jesus as the
fullest image of the living person. She is
the fullest humanity of all human beings,
man or woman. Allan B. Wolter, OFM
is one of the foremost authorities on and
translators of Scotus’ writings. He, together
with Blane O’Neill, OFM, clearly
lay out in this book Scotus’s argument for
“preventive redemption” whereby the Immaculate
Conception of Mary represents
the masterwork of Christ’s redemption.
1993: 99 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0960-2 $12.95
John Duns Scotus,
Philosopher: Proceedings
of “The Quadruple
Congress” on John Duns
Scotus Subsidia 3
Edited by Mary Beth Ingham
and Oleg Bychkov.
From October 2007
through March 2009, four international
conferences were held in honor of the 800th
anniversary of the death of John Duns Scotus
(d. 1308). This volume represents the
first conference held at St. Bonaventure University
in 2007. Fifteen essays are included
in this volime, including contributions from
Stephen F. Brown, Timothy Noone, Mary
Beth Ingham, and Antonie Vos..
2010: 286 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-213-7 $60.00

John Duns Scotus,
Philosopher: Proceedings
of “The Quadruple
Congress” on John Duns
Scotus Subsidia 5
Edited by Ludger Honnefelder,
Hannes Mohle,
Andreas Speer, Theo
Kobusch, Susana Bullido
del Barrio. This volume represents the
third conference held in Cologne-Bonne.
Twenty-eight essays comprise this volume
including works from Rega Wood, Jan A.
Aertsen, Marilyn McCord Adams, and
Robert Andrews. In English and German
2011: 540 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-216-8 $90.00
John Duns Scotus. Early
Oxford Lecture on
Individuation
Introduction with Latin
text and English translation
and notes by (†)
Allan B. Wolter, OFM
The problem of individuation,
because of its theological implications,
was a particularly controversial
topic in university circles, especially at
Paris and Oxford in the late thirteenth
century. Scotus’s lecture translated here is
from his first bachelor lectures in Oxford
on theological issues occasioned by Peter
Lombard’s Sentences.
2005: 144 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-191-8 $14.95
John Duns Scotus. Four
Questions on Mary
Translated with an introduction
and notes by (†)
Allan B. Wolter, OFM
This small book offers, in
a Latin/English editon, a
contribution of John Duns
Scotus to the theological discussion on
Mary the Mother of God. His views had
a profound influence on Marian doctrine
and devotion over the centuries, culminating
in Pius IX’s dogmatic proclamation of
Mary’s Immaculate Conception.
2000: 110 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-168-0 $12.95
John Duns Scotus. Political
and Economic Philosophy
Introduction with Latin text
and English translation by
(†) Allan B. Wolter, OFM
Although Scotus’s primary
philosophical reputation is
as a metaphysician, he did
have certain definitive ideas about politics
and the morality of the market place. This
volume presents two manuscripts of Book
IV of Scotus’s Ordinatio, which present his
political and economic philosophy. The
critical edition of the Latin text is included,
together with parallel English translation.
2001: 92 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-172-7 $12.95
John Duns Scotus. A
Treatise on Potency and
Act. Questions on the
Metaphysics of Aristotle
Book IX
Introduction and commentary
with Latin text and
English translation by (†)
Allan B. Wolter, OFM
This volume presents Book IX of Scotus’s
Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle,
which deals with the fundamental philosophical
issues of Potency and Act. The
critical edition of the Latin text is included,
together with parallel English translation,
accompanied by commentary.
2000: 412 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-170-3 $24.95
Scotus and Ockham
Selected Essays
Edited By Allan B. Wolter,
OFM
Produced over a career of
six decades, Allan Wolter’s
monumental editions,
translations, commentaries
and studies constitute
by far the largest and most influential
body of scholarship by any modern author
of John Duns Scotus. The present collections
brings together twelve of Wolter’s
seminal articles, most of which have never
been reprinted, as well as two new studies
written for this volume. They range over
the length of Wolter’s career and represent
the breadth of his interests: Scotus’s literary
production and academic career, his
metaphysics, ethics, and theology, and
his relation to Ockham and other Franciscan
theologians.
2003: 350 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-188-8 $24.95
John Duns Scotus
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Francis and the Early
franciscan Movement
Francis of Assisi: Heritage and
Heirs Eight Centuries Later
by Thaddée Matura, OFM,
Translated by Paul Lachance, OFM.
In this thought-provoking book
Thaddée Matura offers a new
way of looking at how the Franciscan
tradition was adapted
and contemporized during the
centuries. In a clear and accessible style
he shows how the Franciscan Family has
gotten to the stage it now enjoys and shows
how liberating history can be and is.
2010: 109 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-214-4 $19.95
The Daily Labor of the
Early Franciscans
by David Flood, OFM
In his early studies Flood
focused on the history
of the brotherhood with
special emphasis on the
development of the Early
Rule. Eventually, the
social structures of early Franciscan life led
to the economics of the early Franciscan
movement and the importance of work in
the life of Francis and his companions. Told
from the vantage point of a historian, Flood
leads the reader through his analysis of the
early movement.
2010: 160 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-156-7 $19.95
The Early Franciscan
Movement (1205-1239):
History, Sources and
Hermeneutics
by Michael F. Cusato, OFM
This volume gathers
together and updates
previously published essays
on topics related to the contested story
of early Franciscan history (1205-1239),
treating subjects such as the Franciscan
approach to power and authority, the attitude
of Francis towards Islam and the
Crusades, the Privilege of Poverty, and the
connection between the two versions of the
Epistola ad fideles. By special arrangement
with the Italian publisher, Centro Italiano.
2009: 460 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-223-6 $60.00
Franciscan Wealth:
From Voluntary Poverty
to Market Society
by Giacomo Todeschini,
translated by Donatella
Melucci
Originally published in
Italian in 2004, Todeschini’s
studies highlight
the relationship between the development
of the Franciscan movement and medieval
economic thinking and practice. While not
the “first economists,” the early Franciscans
approached the marketplace out of their
rigorous Christian religiosity and showed
clearly the necessary connection between
morality and business.
2009: 209 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-153-6 $19.95
Francis of Assisi in the
Sources and Writings
Roberto Rusconi, translated
by Nancy Celaschi,
OSF
The object of this work is
to give readers the tools
to gain a better understanding
of the man from Assisi. It contains
a reprint of a biographical sketch prepared
for the Dizionario biografico degli Italiani,
in which the story of Francis’s life was presented
as succinctly as possible. Following
this is a collection of texts whose purpose is
to lead the reader back to the sources that
serve as a basis for a historical reconstruction.
2008: 128 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-152-9 $19.95
The Stigmata of
Francis of Assisi
Essays by Jacques Dalarun,
Michael F. Cusato,
OFM, Carla Salvati
These essays offer critical
examinations of the
historical event. They
present contemporary
interpretations of how the stigmata narration
developed and its meaning for our
time.
2006: 113p.
Pb 978-1-57659-140-6 $24.95
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Respectfully Yours:
Signed and Sealed, Francis
of Assisi. Aspects of
His Authorship and Focuses
of His Spirituality
Edith van den Goorbergh,
OSC and Theodore
Zweerman, OFM
Translated from the
Dutch.
Through a meticulous reading of his writing,
one can discover Francis the Mystic.
The authors pay full attention to what Francis
has to say and pay special attention to
texts from the liturgy of Francis’s time.
2001: 435 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-178-9 $29.95
The Admonitions of St.
Francis: Sources and
Meanings
Robert J. Karris, OFM
This text offers a fresh
translation of each
admonition, parallel
texts previously noted by
other scholars or newly
uncovered by Karris, as well as comments
on each admonition verse by verse. The
reader is led into Francis’s “theological
workshop” where it becomes clear how
Francis imprinted his own logo on the
spiritual traditions he inherited.
1999: 316 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-166-6 $19.95
Francis of Asssi: The
Message in His Writings
By Thaddée Matura
Although Francis had no
formal training in theology,
he has left us a profound
yet warmly human
vision of the Christian
life. In this study, the
author breaks with custom and focuses not
on the personality of Francis but on his
message as we find it in his writings: a rich,
balanced message that teaches a vibrant
spirituality centered on God and humanity.
1997; reprint 2004: 208 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-127-7 $20.00
The Misadventure of
Francis of Assisi
By Jacques Dalarun
An English translation
of La malaventura di
Francesco d’Assisi: per un
uso storico delle leggende
francescane.
This publication will
certainly generate lively discussion and a
deeper understanding of the Franciscan
phenomenon. In a tone that is profoundly
personal and to the point, Dalarun offers
to serve as a methodological guide in the
renewed interest in the famous “Franciscan
Question”: how best to read, interpret and
relate the early biographies to the historical
Francis.
2002: 296 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-181-9 $24.95
Francis of Assisi
and the Feminine
By Jacques Dalarun
An English translation of
Francesco: un passagio.
Donna e donne negli
scritti e nelle leggende di
Francesco d’Assisi.
Jacques Dalarun delivers a tight analysis of
all the passages in the writings of Francis
and his biographers that, in any way whatsoever,
touch on aspects and instances of
his attitude towards women and femininity,
or even better, use categories that can be
defined as feminine.
2006: 375 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-139-0 $34.95
Francis of Assisi
and Power
By Jacques Dalarun
An English translation
of François d’Assise ou le
pouvoir en question.
In this presentation,
it is not the question
of poverty that holds
center stage as the cause of the controversies
within the early Franciscan fraternity.
Rather, paradoxically, it is the question of
Francis’s humility.
2007: 237 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-142-0 $34.95
Francis
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Franciscan Poverty
by Malcolm Lambert. Revised
Edition, 1998.
An assessment of the
rise and fall within the
Franciscan Order of the
doctrine of the absolute
poverty of Christ and
the apostles. Covering
the decades between 1210-1323, Lambert
describes the doctrine as found in the mind
of St. Francis and moves to Pope John
XXII’s condemnation of one particular
form of the doctrine.
1998: 311 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-001-0 $14.95
We Saw Brother Francis
by Francis de Beer
De Beer does not aim to
examine the saint’s life
from testimonies written
once that life on earth
had been concluded;
rather he inquires how
those who knew Francis
first hand encountered him while he was
still alive. He attempts to discover how
Francis’s contemporaries experienced him
close up. How did they criticize him? How
did they imagine him?
1983: 145 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0803-2 $9.00
The Writings of Francis :
Studies in Early Franciscan Sources
Edited by Michael W. Blastic, OFM, Jay Hammond,
PhD and Wayne Hellmann, OFM Conv.
The Writings of Francis of Assisi:
Letters and Prayers - Volume 1
Letters and Prayers features the
scholarly work of Luigi Pellegrini,
Jean- François Godet-Calogeras,
Michael W. Blastic, Michael F.
Cusato, Jay M. Hammond PhD,
and Laurent Gallant.
2011: 336 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-230-4 $29.95
The Writings of Francis of Assisi:
Rules, Testament and
Admonitions - Volume 2
Rules, Testament and Admonitions
contains essays by William J. Short,
Michael W. Blastic, Jay M. Hammond,
PhD and JA Wayne Hellmann.
2011: 336 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-232-8 $29.95
From St. Francis
to Giotto
Vincent Moleta
This book was not meant
for the specialist. It
brings together and
reconsiders some of the
most familiar expressions
of early Franciscan
culture, while it merely touches on related
questions such as the debate over poverty
and the influence of Joachim of Fiore. Moleta’s
aim was to show St. Francis through
the eyes of Italian writers and painters
active during the century that followed his
death, and to outline his place in the native
culture that flowered in Italy from the midthirteenth
to mid-fourteenth centuries.
1984: 120 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0853-7 $15.00
First Encounter with
Francis of Assisi
by Damien Vorreux
translated by Paul
Schwartz and Paul Lachance
St. Francis set the universe
into a state of praise
and of fraternity. The
boldness of his innovating dynamism was
equaled only by his filial submission to
the Church, which he would reform from
within. Francis realized the impossible
task of being the most liberated man in the
church of his day and yet the most docile
to its hierarchy and its institutions. He
mobilized all those, no matter who they
were, who were avid for the spirit of God
and impatient to serve the church.
1979: 90 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0698-4 $5.95
Francis and Islam
J. Hoeberichts
In the first part of this
study, Dr. Hoeberichts
goes back to Francis’s
“Earlier Rule, “ the
Regula non bullata of
1221. Firmly rooted in
historical scholarship,
Hoeberichts’ book recreates the milieu of
Francis and his first brothers and brings
new insights to contemporary issues of
interreligious dialogue.
1997: 316 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0980-0 $14.95
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St. Francis of Assisi
Raoul Manselli
Attempting to grasp
the central and inspiring
motive of Francis’s
life and work, Manselli
depicts the little man of
Assisi struggling to step
as faithfully as possible in
the footprints of the model, Jesus Christ.
At this juncture of history when religious
orders have been directed to their original
charisms, Raoul Manselli, in depicting
Francis of Assisi reminds all Franciscan of
the noble ideals upon which has been built
the Order of Francis of Assisi.
1985: 388 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0880-3 $24.95
St. Francis of Assisi
John R. H. Moorman
Moorman writes in his
preface to this terrific,
short biography
of Francis of Assisi that
Francis has something
to say to all people. He
was a mystic, poet, and
a man of great courage. All these things
were important, and all combine to make
him a very remarkable man. But perhaps
the thing about him which appeals to us
most today is the challenge which he threw
down to the standards and values of the
ordinary, secular life of man.
1987: 118 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0904-6 $4.95
St. Francis and the Song
of Brotherhood and
Sisterhood
Eric Doyle, OFM
In 1981 the author wrote:
“The Canticle of Brother
Sun is a charter of peace
. . . [t]he most basic
meaning of peace is being
at home with all creatures, loving all life,
reverencing all matter. The Canticle has a
message of peace for all nations. . . . ” For
those who find in St. Francis an inspiration,
this book will provide practical starting
points for the application of the Franciscan
way to everyday life.
1997: 244 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-003-4 $9.95
The Birth of a Movement
David Flood, OFM and
Thadée Matura, OFM
The Birth of a Movement
presents an initiation to
the study of an important
writing of Francis; the
rule called the “first” or
“without bull” (non bullata).
It proposes to make this writing of
St. Francis more accessible, not only to the
Franciscan family, but to a wider public.
1975: 151 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0567-3 $6.95
Paradise Restored
Jan Hoeberichts
The Salutation of the
Virtues can be characterized
as a poetic reminder
or even a poetic testament
which St. Francis
composes so that the
brothers may take to
heart and never forget the virtues, God’s
holy forces, that are to shape the brotherhood
in its continuous struggle to build an
alternative society against the forces of evil
that are threatening the brotherhood and
its original ideals.
2004: 276 p.
Pb978-0-8199-1008-0 $14.95
A Study of the Rule of
1223: History, Exegesis
and Reflection
By Michael W. Blastic,
OFM
Having opened up the
meaning of the Rule
for his readers, Blastic
also invites the followers
of Francis to consider how the Rule
might serve as the horizon against which
they might determine anew how to live
according to the spirit of the Rule in a radically
different cultural, social and ecclesial
context. This study is made available by the
Holy Name Province’s Ongoing Formation
Committee.
2008: 112 p. $3.00
Francis
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Francis of Assisi and His
Conversions
by Pierre Brunette, OFM
translated by Paul Lachance,
OFM and Kathryn
Krug
This examination of the
youth of Francis, covering
1202-2110, looks at seven
critical periods in his life that produced
conversions and led him to discover the
Gospel as a way of life.
1997: 120 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0978-7 $7.00
St. Francis and the Third
Order: The Francisan and
pre-Franciscan Penitential
Movement
by Raffaele Pazzelli, TOR
The publication of this
text was the first time an
English-language history
of the Third Order was made available to
Third Order Regulars and the Secular Franciscan
Order - who combined comprise
The Order of Penance.
1989: 256 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0953-4 $14.95
St. Francis of Assisi: Essays
in Commemoration
by Maurice W. Sheehan,
OFM Cap
A selection of a dozen
essays on St. Francis from
great twentieth theologins
and historians commemorating
the eighth
century of the birth of St. Francis. This
book is both a good characterization of the
Spirituals and an interesting starting point
for the study of Capuchin reform.
1982: 194 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-063-8 $10.00
Clare and the
poor sisters
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Clare and the Poor
Sisters in the Thirteenth
Century
Maria Pia Alberzoni. Ed.
by Jean- François Godet-
Calogeras
A new English-language
resource on Clare and the
Poor Ladies of San Damiano.
Alberzoni provides a careful, contextual
reading of the sources surrounding the
foundation of the group living with Clare
in the decades of change after the death of
Francis.
2004: 241 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-195-6 $22.00
Clare of Assisi: The Lady
translated by Regis J.
Armstrong, OFM Cap
Provides new translations
of Clare’s writings and
related primary sources,
revised and new introductions
from earlier
editions, as well as previously
unpublished documents to chronicle
the life of Saint Clare.
2006: 472 p.
Hc 978-1-56548-220-3 $24.95
Francis/Clare
Writings of Clare of Assisi:
Studies in Early Franciscan
Sources Volume 3
The Writings of Clare of Assisi
presents the latest scholarship
by Ingrid Peterson,
Lezlie Knox, Michael W.
Blastic and Jean-François
Godet-Calogeras.
2011: 144p.
Pb 978-1-57659-233-5 $19.95
In the Footsteps of St. Clare: A Pilgrim’s
Guide Book
Ramona Miller, OSF
This book is a guide to
the spirituality of Saint
Clare of Assisi at the
places where she lived
and where her body lies.
Her courageous exit from
her noble home to a life
of poverty at San Damiano has a timeless
message for Franciscans and for those who
yearn to discover God.
1993: 124 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-070-6 $10.00

Clare and the
poor sisters
The Clare Centenary
Series
compiled by the Poor
Clares in Nantes, France,
translated and edited by
Regis J. Armstrong, OFM
Cap., assisted by Pacelli
Millane, OSC
The Clare Centenary
Series is a four-volume set with themes
and concordances based on the writings of
Clare of Assisi, the Acts of the Process of
Canonization, and the Legend.
Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi:
Clare Discovers the Love of God in the
Church
1992: 212 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-076-8 $10.00
Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi:
Clare’s Form of Gospel Life
1992: 188 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-075-1 $9.00
Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi:
Fraternal Life
1992: 231 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-074-4 $10.00
Clare of Assisi – Investigations
by Roberta McKelvie, OSF, Michael Blastic,
OFM Conv., Ingrid Peterson, OSF, Regis
Armstrong, OFM Cap., Michael Cusato,
OFM
Investigations contains papers from the
1992 Kalamazoo International Medieval
Congress.
1992: 115 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-078-2 $8.50
Clare of Assisi: A Medieval and Modern
Woman: Clarefest Selected Papers
Ingrid Peterson, OSF, ed.
This volume, from Clarefest ’93 honoring
the 800th anniversary of Clare’s birth,
investigates a broad spectrum of Clare’s life
and times, plus some contemporary applications
of her spiritual inspiration.
1996: 285 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-000-3 $8.00
Clare Among Her Sisters
by René Charles Dhont,
OFM
In seven chapters, Father
Dhont analyzes the view
of the evolution of the
Franciscan movement in
the three Orders, and a
reflection on the challenges
of contemporary Franciscan life.
1987: 174 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-068-3 $12.00
Clare’s Letters to Agnes:
Texts and Sources
by Joan Mueller
The four letters attributed
to Clare of Assisi
and addressed to Agnes
of Prague are documents
of primary importance
for the study of the early
Franciscan movement and, in particular,
for the history of early Franciscan women.
2001: 270 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-1765 $14.95
The First Franciscan
Woman: Clare of Assisi
& Her Form of Life
by Sr. Margaret Carney,
OSF. Clare of Assisi
(1193-1253) was the most
important woman who
emerged within the
unfolding history of the
movement inspired by Francis of Assisi.
She joined him in his search for a way to
incarnate the powerful message of the
Gospel of Christ in a situation of economic,
social and ecclesiastical reformation. She
has been revered through the centuries as
his disciple, friend, and co-worker.
1993: 261 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0962-6 $12.00
Clare
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Franciscan History
Colette of Corbie (1381-1447):
Learning and Holiness
by Elisabeth Lopez, Translated by
Joanna Waller
Released for the first time in
English. Lopez’s book, originally
published in French in 1994, is a
serious study of Colette and her reform
movement of the Poor Clare
Sisters. “Lopez’s book is necessary reading
for anyone who wants to understand the
many faceted aspects of the history of the
Poor Clares,” says Pacelli Millane, OSC.
Colette of Corbie is one of the few texts
written depicting the historical context and
spiritual depth of the reform which offered
women of the Second Order the opportunity
to return to the observance of the Rule
of St. Clare.
2010: 640 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-217-5 $50.00
Ebook 978-1-57659-219-9 $24.95
EPDF 978-1-57659-218-2 $24.95
In the Name of Saint
Francis: A History of
the Friars Minor and
Franciscanism until the
Early Sixteenth Century
by Grado Giovanni Merlo,
translated by Raphael Bonnano,
OFM and Robert J.
Karris, OFM
A most fascinating and intriguing aspect of
Franciscan history is the constant, life-giving
examination the friars made of their past, so
rich with creativity and intellectual effort, but
also so full of human suffering and unremitting
conflict.
2009: 592 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-155-0 $49.95
Angelo Clareno: A Chronicle
or History
o the Seven Tribulations
of the Order of
Brothers Minor
Edited and Translated by
David Burr and E. Randolph
Daniel
For the first time, a
complete English version of the Historia de
Septem Tribulationum Ordinis Minorum
by Angelo of Clareno. Introduction and
translation by David Burr and E. Randolph
Daniel. Based upon two recent Latin texts by
Giovanni Boccali and Orietta Rossini. This
very significant contribution to Franciscan
studies cannot be ignored!
2005: 242 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-198-7 $19.95
The History of
Franciscan Theology
Edited by Kenan Osborne,
OFM
One cannot enter the
medieval world of the
13th century wearing
21st century glasses. The
authors writing in the volume make every
effort to see what the Franciscan Schoolmen
saw; to hear what they heard; to think as
they thought. Thus foundational Franciscan
insights and intuitions are offered for
consideration in the contemporary search for
meaning.
1994: 345 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-032-1 $35.00
The Medieval Franciscans:
Friars and Jews in
the Middle Ages and
Renaissance
edited by Steven J. McMicael
and Susan E. Myer
This volume deals with friars,
especially the Franciscans and Dominicans,
in their writing and preaching about
Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
2004: 316 p.
Hc 978-1-00411-398-3 $50.00
History of the
Franciscan Order
by J.R.H. Moorman
Moorman tells the story of
the friars in the first three
centuries of their existence.
He highlights the impact
they had on society, records
the problems and disagreements within the
order and indicates their contribution to the
life of the world and of the Church.
1988: 641 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0921-3 $25.00
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Franciscan History

“Peace and Good” in
America, A History of
the Holy Name Province,
Order of the Friars Minor
1850s to the present
By Joseph M. White
In carrying forward the
province’s tradition of
historical writing, the following
history aims to place the story of
Holy Name Province and its antecedents in
the larger context of Church and society in
America and in other places where the friars
served. The historical understanding of
virtually every relevant issue in American
Catholic life has advanced markedly since
publication of the works of Callahan, Hammon,
and Angelo. There are new approaches
to dealing with historical truth in Catholic
historical works.
2004: 521 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-196-3 $45.00
St. Anthony Doctor
of the Church
Sophronius Clasen
Clasen produces an in
depth biography of St.
Anthony of Padua, piecing
together the missing
attributes of Anthony’s life
through descriptive accounts
and old biographies. Clasen traces
Anthony through Morocco, Sicily, Northern
Italy, and France to his death in Padua.
1973: 116 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0458-4 $4.95
Origins of the
Franciscan Order
Cajetan Esser, OFM
A study of the problems
of the early history of the
Franciscan Order by one
of the most important
scholars of the Order, this
book seeks to contribute
to a stronger historical understanding of
the work of St. Francis by looking into the
debates and theories surrounding the formation
of the Order, and the transformation
of the “original ideals of St. Francis.”
Translated from the German.
1970: 310 p.
Pb 978-0-81990-408-2 $15.00
Retrieving a Living
Tradition – Angela of
Montegiove: Franciscan,
Tertiary, Beguine
Roberta Agnes McKelvie,
OSF
An examination of the
story of Angelina and the
religious movement associated
with her from within the Franciscan
tradition, the author reads the source
texts with a hermeneutic of suspicion and
retrieval. The result provides a greatly
expanded and revised perspective on the
historical signficance of Angelina as a Franciscan
tertiary and Italian Beguine.
1997: 212 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-131-4 $18.00
Friars Minor in China
Arnulf Camps, OFM, and
Pat McCloskey, OFM, eds.
A study of the life and
work of the Friars Minor
in China’s Middle Kingdom
during seven centuries,
this work is based on
1,110 pages of scientific
monographs by Bernward Willeke, OFM,
and Domenico Gandolfi, OFM. The text
concentrates on the years 1925-55.
1996: 316 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-002-7 $19.95
The Leonine Union of the
Order of Friars Minor
1897
Maurice Carmody, OFM
Over time, efforts by
members of his Order to
live life after the manner
of St. Francis resulted
in a diversity which ultimately served the
Order poorly. Carmody’s work recounts the
struggle to unify four different Franciscan
families.
1994: 234 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-084-3 $14.95
Franciscan History
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Friars Minor in
Ireland from Their
Arrival to 1400
Francis Cotter, OFM,
This study situates the
fascinating story of the
foundation of the Friars
Minor in Ireland within
the historical context of
Irish life in the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries.
1994: 284 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-083-6 $9.95
History of The Third
Order Regular Rule:
A Source Book
edited by Margaret Carney,
OSF, Jean François
Godet-Calogeras, and
Suzanne M. Kush, CSSF.
The work that produced
the approved text for the
Rule and Life of the Brothers and Sisters of
the Third Order Regular of St. Francis in
1982 has several sources. The energy and
enlightenment that gave rise to this first
international collaboration in TOR history
was fed by multiple streams and the most
important are enumerated here.
2008: 512 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-149-9 $34.95
A Poor Man’s Legacy:
An Anthology of
Franciscan Poverty
Cyprian J. Lynch, ed.
Although this anthology
of Franciscan poverty
contains 187 selections
grouped under 149
entries, it is no more than
a modest sample of extant writings on the
subject. Yet, because it includes examples
of a wide variety of literary forms, authored
by members of all branches of the Franciscan
family representing ten language
groups and all eight centuries of Franciscan
history, it clearly demonstrates the continuity
of the Franciscan tradition of poverty.
1989: 760 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-069-0 $19.99
I Know Christ
by Gratien Badin, OFM
Cap
translated by Paul J.
Oligny, OFM
Translation of Saint
Francois d’Assise, sa peronnalite,
sa spiritualite, by
Gratien Badin, OFM, Cap.
The title of the English translation of this
book is taken from one of the sayings of
Saint Francis of Assisi: I know Christ, poor
and crucified.
1988: 80 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-094-2 $5.95
The Franciscan Spirituals
& the Capuchin
Reform
by Thaddeus MacVicar,
OFM Cap
This book is both a good
charecterization of the
Spirituals and an intersting
starting point for the
study of the Capuchin Reform
1986: 176 p.
978-1-57659-086-7 $9.95
Franciscan Concept
of Mission in the High
Middle Ages
by E. Randolph Daniel
An examination of missionary
work by Franciscans
in the High Middle
Ages.
1992: 178 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-065-2 $9.95
Medieval Franciscan
Houses
by John R. H. Moorman
This work provides an
alphabetical listing of
the 4500 establishments,
approximately, for Friars
and Clares from the time
of St. Francis until the
division of the Order in 1517.
1983: 710 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-079-9 $39.95
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Franciscan History

Spirit and Life Series
Volume 16
Words Made Flesh: Essays Honoring
Kenan B. Osborne, OFM
Written by several of the finest
scholars in the modern Franciscan
world – Joseph Chinnici,
Bishop John Cummins,
William J. Short, †Allan B.
Wolter, Zachary Hayes, †Regis
A. Duffy, Michael D. Guinan, Johannes B.
Freyer, Antonie Vos and Mary Beth Ingham
– these different approaches to sacraments,
ecclesiology, Christology, and anthropology
testify to Kenan Osborne’s academic life, his
plumbing of our theological tradition for
new insights, and his wide breadth of learning
and interests.
2011: 208 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-224-3 $19.95
Volume 15
Dying, As A Franciscan
Many of us within the Franciscan
Family of the 21st
Century – friars, sisters, seculars
and all those associated
in any way with the Poverello
of Assisi – find ourselves
surrounded by those within
our own communities and families who
are in need of similar accompaniment and
companionship as we walk the road toward
the fullness of life. And each one of us, one
day, will walk the same path ourselves.
2011: 118 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-221-2 $19.95
Volume 14
Rule of the Friars Minor,
1209-2009: Historical
Perspectives, Lived
Realties
This volume makes
available the results of a
unique conference held at
the Franciscan Institute in
April 2009 to celebrate the 800th anniversary
of the founding of the Order of Friars
Minor through the confirmation of the
propositum vitae of the early friars by Pope
Innocent III on April 16, 1209.
2010: 180 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-212-0 $19.95
Volume 13
Mirroring One Another, Reflecting the
Divine: The Franciscan-Muslim Journey
Into God
Presentations from the 8th Franciscan
Forum, held in Colorado Springs, with
contributions from Jan Hoeberichts, Michael
Calabria, OFM, F. Betul Cavdar, Paul
Lachance, OFM, and Robert Lentz, OFM.
This is a companion volume to Daring to
Embrace the Other.
2009: 128 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-157-4 $19.95
Volume 12
Daring to Embrace the Other: Franciscans
and Muslims in Dialogue
This volume contains presentations by
Michael F. Cusato, OFM, Michael D. Calabria,
OFM, Robert Lentz, Irfan A. Omar and Madge
Karecki originally given at the 7th Franciscan
Forum held at Colorado Springs, June
2007.
2008: 154 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-151-2 $19.95
Volume 11
An Unencumbered Heart A Tribute to
Clare of Assisi 1253-2003
Jean-François Godet-Calogeras and Roberta
McKelvie, OSF, eds.
All focus is on development of the Forma
vitae written by Clare and approved just
before her death in 1253 or on her letters to
Agnes of Prague.
2004: 80 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-192-5 $12.95
Volume 10
True Followers of Justice: Identity, Insertion,
and Itinerancy among the Early
Franciscans
Michael F. Cusato, OFM, and Keith Warner,
OFM, Elise Saggau, OSF, ed.
As thirteenth-century urban populations
increased, the friars, entrusted by the
Church with the ministry of preaching,
naturally needed to go where the people
were. At the same time they needed to honor
their way of life, which required them
to live prayerfully in fraternities, yet not
settle down permanently in stable religious
houses after the monastic model.
2000: 160 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-171-0 $9.95
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Volume 9
Islam and Franciscanism: A Dialogue
Daniel Dwyer, OFM., and Hugh Hines,
OFM., eds.
From the time of Francis’s meeting with
the Sultan, a tradition of dialogue between
the Moslem and Christian traditions, as
epitomized in the Franciscan movement,
has endured. This volume offers a set of essays
that deal with the relationship between
Islam and Franciscanism as experienced in
the past and as it is presently being lived.
2000: 148 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-169-7 $9.95
Volume 8
Franciscan Studies: The
Difference Women are
Making
Margaret Carney, OSF and
Elise Saggau, OSF, eds.
A collection of talks
presented at Washington
Theological Union, May
29-31, 1998. Contributors include Maria
Calisi; Margaret Carney, OSF.; Ilia Delio,
OSF; Paul LaChance, OFM.; Roberta McKelvie,
OSF.; Dominic Monti, OFM; Elise
Saggau, OSF; Adele Thibaudeau, OSF; and
Gabriele Ühlein, OSF.
1999: 132 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-164-2 $9.95
Volume 7
Franciscan Leadership in Ministry:
Foundations in History, Theology, and
Spirituality
Anthony Carrozzo, OFM, Vincent Cushing,
OFM, and Kenneth Himes, OFM, eds.
A collection of essays originally presented
in March, 1993, at a seminar in Denver,
sponsored by the Holy Name Province of
the Friars Minor.
1997: 245 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-132-1 $9.95
Volume 6
Mission in the Franciscan
Tradition
Anselm Moons, OFM
and Flavian Walsh, OFM,
eds.,1994.
Collected essays reflect
upon the contemporary
value of the concrete missionary
method of Francis and his followers.
1995: 246 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-038-6 $9.95
Volume 5
Refounding in the Franciscan Tradition
Anthony Carrozzo, OFM
These essays describe one Franciscan province’s
experience of a refounding process
and how it grappled with its dreams, visions
and plans in a complex and changing
society.
1994: 135 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-037-9 $9.95
Volume 4
The Care of Souls and the
Rhetoric of Moral Theology
in Bonaventure and
Thomas
Mark Jordan
The fourth annual series
of Bonaventure Lectures
(1990) given at St. Bonaventure
University addresses the unique
teaching technique of St. Bonaventure from
the perspective of modern hermeneutics.
1993: 80 p.
ISBN: 978-1-57659-034-8 $9.95
Volume 3
Ethical Method of John Duns Scotus
By Thomas A. Shannon and Mary Beth
Ingham, CSJ, eds.
The four papers in this volume were
presented at a symposium celebrating the
anticipated beatification of John Duns Scotus,
summer 1992. They address Scotus’s
perspective on The Nature of the Human
Person, Free Will, and Decision-making in
the private and public spheres.
1992: 144 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-039-3 $9.95
Volume 2
The Franciscan Charism in Higher Education
Roberta A. McKelvie, OSF, ed.
This volume addresses the contribution
of Franciscan ideals to the institutions of
higher learning. The contributors are all
experienced in the field of education and
present a variety of topics appropriate to
value formation in that venue.
1992: 156 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-036-2 $9.95
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franciscan Heritage Series
Women of the Streets,
Early Franciscan Women
and Their Mendicant
Vocation
by Darleen Pryds
This book about Mendicant
women outside the
cloister is unique in its
content. Rose of Viterbo,
Angela of Foligno, Margaret of Cortona,
and Sancia, Queen of Naples, were all born
within the first century of the Franciscan
Order. As women who pursued their
religious vocation of voluntary poverty,
itinerancy, and preaching outside of monastic
walls – in the streets and in their
homes – they could very well be called the
first generation of mendicant women.
2010: 96 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-206-9 $12.00
Rejoicing in the Works of
the Lord: Beauty in the
Franciscan Tradition
by Mary Beth Ingham,
CSJ
The special focus of this
study is the appreciation
of beauty in the writing of
two great theorists of the
tradition, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and
John Duns Scotus.
2009: 96 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-205-2 $12.00
Trinitarian Perspectives
in the Franciscan
Theological Tradition
by Maria Calisi
The purpose of this volume
is to present distinctly
Franciscan perspectives
on the doctrine of the
Trinity in the writings of
Bonaventure and Francis, and to demonstrate
what this tradition has to offer to the
Christian Church.
2008: 96 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-204-5 $12.00
The Franciscan Vision
and the Gospel of John:
The San Damiano Crucifix,
Francis and John,
Creation and John
by Michael D. Guinan, OFM
The San Damiano Crucifix,
meditation on the
Word of God in Scripture
and the evangelical life of Francis and Clare
are at the heart of the Franciscan vision.
Professor Guinan shows us the significance
of the Gospel of John as a directive force,
particularly in its key images of Word,
Lamb, Good Shepherd and the One Who
Washes Feet. A CD with a power point
presentation on the images of the San Damiano
Crucifix is included.
2006: 80 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-203-0 $12.00
The Franciscan View of
the Human Person: Some
Central Elements
by Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF
This brief volume discusses
several of the central
elements of human
persons as found within
the Franciscan theological
tradition. As that tradition developed
over the years, the intuitions and insights of
Saints Francis and Clare of Assisi concerning
the human person were further
developed and/or restated in language better
understood by the people of a particular
era. This text provides insight into that
development.
2005: 96 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-202-1 $12.00
Heritage Series
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A Franciscan View of Creation:
Learning to Live in
a Sacramental World
by Ilia Delio, OSF
The purpose of this
volume is to elucidate in
greater detail the theology
of creation as a foundational
starting point for
contemporary belief and practice. The author
traces the theme of God and creation
from the time of the conversion of Francis
of Assisi through the first century of Franciscan
life and thought, which culminated
in the work of John Duns Scotus.
2003: 80 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-201-4 $12.00
The Franciscan Intellectual
Tradition: Tracing Its
Origins and Identifying
Its Central Components
by Kenan Osborne, OFM
The purpose of this
volume is to present
some general and major
themes of the theological
formulation of the Franciscan Intellectual
Tradition as these themes intersect with
contemporary perspectives. It provides a
solid foundation for future expositions in
this series and challenges readers to express
these theological themes in preaching, in
pastoral practice, in the works of evangelization,
and in the formative experiences of
friars, sisters, and laity.
2003: 88 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-200-7 $12.00
St. bonaventure university
Walls Speak: The Narrative
Art of Hildreth
Meiere
Catherine Coleman
Brawer, edited by Elaine
Banks Stainton, illustrated
by Hildreth Meiere Dunn
This book has been
published in connection
with the exhibition, The Walls Speak: The
Narrative Art of Hildreth Meiere. Joseph
A. LoSchiavo, Associate Vice-President,
St. Bonaventure University and Executive
Director, The Regina A. Quick Center for
the Arts, provides a preface for the book.
It was at the Quick Center for the Arts that
the exhibition opened before moving to the
National Building Museum in Washington,
DC, in the spring of 2011. Louise Meiere
Dunn, Hildreth’s granddaughter, provides a
recap of Hildreth Meiere’s commissions.
2009: 112 p.
Pb 978-1-93531-400-4 $35.00
The Good Journey: 150 Years of History at
St. Bonaventure University
Based on the research of Edward K. Eckert
Editing and additional content by Robert,
Ann and Daniel McCarthy
Based on an original text by Edward Eckert
with editing and additional content from
St. Bonaventure alumni Robert, Ann and
Daniel McCarthy, we have combined
their terrific text with iconic and inspiring
photos from our archives to bring you this
compelling written and visual history of St.
Bonaventure University.
June 2011: 160 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-222-9 $45.00
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franciscan Studies & faith formation
Anthony of Padua,
Sermones for the
Easter Cycle
George Marcil, OFM, ed.
Besides offering the
first English translation
of Anthony’s Easter
sermons, this book offers
a factual biography of
Anthony and valuable information on
the nature of preaching in the thirteenth
century.
1994: 230 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-041-6 $5.00 Sold As Is
Build With Living Stones
Based upon the internationally-recognized
Comprehensive Course
on the Franciscan Missionary
Charism, the
resource offers guidance
for Franciscan reflection
around the themes of
life and work. Divided into 14 units, this
program offers insight into contemporary
issues such as the economy, the environment,
peace-making, and what it means
to live well in a pluralistic world. Using
an adult-education model, each unit offers
readings and suggested reflections usable
in either group or individual settings or for
college/university curricula, parish education,
retreats or days of recollection, and/or
orientation to Franciscan life and work.
1987
Binder 978-1-57659-134-5 $35.00
Clare and Francis:
O Let the Faithful
People Sing
Robert Hutmacher, OFM
A collection of early
Franciscan melodies,
chants, and music which
has been translated and
revised for use in contemporary settings.
1993: 112 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-071-3 $9.95
The Eloquence of Sanctity:
Rhetoric in Thomas
Of Celano’s ‘Vita Prima
Sancti Francisci’
John P. Bequette
The Eloquence of
Sanctity examines the
interrelation between
hagiography and rhetoric
in one of the most important medieval
saints: Thomas of Celano’s Vita Prima Sancti
Francisci (The Life of St. Francis). The
author contends that Thomas uses figures
drawn from the Roman rhetorical tradition
to construct his image of Saint Francis and
to persuade his audience to seek Francis’s
intercession and emulate his life. This book
attempts to demonstrate the inherently rhetorical
nature of hagiography as well as the
ambiguities and limits of language when it
attempts to comprehend the sacred.
2003: 207 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-1006-6 $15.00
Franciscan Christology
Damian McElrath, ed.
This anthology brings
together a number of
Christological selections,
from notable Franciscan
writers ranging from St.
Francis to St. Bernardine
of Siena. It shows
the variety in Franciscan Christology as it
investigates speculative theology, historical
perspective, spirituality and pastoral
concerns.
1997: 240 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-040-9 $14.95
Franciscan Solitude
André Cirino, OFM and
Josef Raischl, eds.
This collection of essays
is the fruit of determined
exploration into the profound
importance of the
eremitical tradition in
Franciscan life. It offers
food for thought with respect to meaningful
paradigms for contemporary expressions
of the hunger for solitude.
1995: 370 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-006-5 $18.00
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Franciscans Doing Theology: An Independent
Study Program to Accompany the
History of Franciscan Theology
prepared by Mary C. Gurley, OSF
This resource attempts to capture both the
content and dynamics of the 1997 National
Franciscan Forum. Materials provide an
indepth focus on conference presentations.
Included are videos, comprehensive presentation
outlines, readings and questions.
1999:
ISBN: 978-1-57659-165-9
Workbook: $20.00
Videos: $10.00
Workbook & Videos: $25.00
Franciscans and
Healthcare: What is the
Future?
Elise Saggau, OSF, ed.
In 1999, the Franciscan
Center of the Washington
Theological Union
gathered experts to
discuss the role of contemporary
Franciscans in the ministry of
healthcare. The talks were designed with
a view both to spirituality and to maintaining
Franciscan identity. At a time when
Franciscan institutions are facing critical
decisions, it is important to remember the
tradition that brought them to where they
are, the values that make them what they
are, and the spirituality that identifies who
they are. The contributions made here are a
step in this direction.
2001: 128 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-177-2 $14.95
Franciscans in Urban
Ministry
Roberta A. McKelvie,
OSF, ed.
Assuming that the lives
of Francis and his early
followers remain a credible
model for engaging
in a process of urban
evangelization, this text explores some
salient features of the Franciscan story and
considers contemporary challenges to life
and ministry in the city. Contributors include
Dominic Monti, OFM, Patricia Keefe,
OSF, Joseph Chinnici, OFM, and James A.
Wallace, CSR
2002: 152 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-182-6 $14.95
From Intuition to Institution:
The Franciscans
Theophile Desbonnets
A religious order isn’t ever
born completely organized
in the spirit of its founder.
It begins as an idea with
imprecise limits, and
unformulated intuition,
recognized one day for what it is by the
founder and his first disciples. Thus it was
with the Franciscans. Through what collective
effort did it shift from being Francis’s
intuition to being the Order of Friars
Minor? And what remains of the intuition
at this point of the evolution? This is what
From Intuition to Institution intends to tell.
1988: 166 p.
Hc 978-0-8199-0913-8 $12.00
Golden Words – The Sayings
of Brother Giles of
Assisi
by Nello Vian.
The name Giles is the
common English form of
the Latin Aegidius. During
the Middle Ages there was
widespread European devotion
to a St. Giles who died in 712. Our
Giles had two contemporary namesakes
who were later beatified. But only Blessed
Giles of Assisi has left such “wise saws and
modern instances” as the Golden Sayings.
1990: 159 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0040-1 $7.95
In Solitude and Dialogue:
Contemporary
Franciscans Theologize
Anthony M. Carrozzo,
OFM, ed.
Seven articles explore
different aspects of the
contemplative experience
of contemporary Franciscan
theology. The foundation for the
essays is Francis’s Rule for Hermitages; the
texts emerged from the desire of mature
Franciscans to describe the call to pray in
community and share their own intellectual
journeys. Contributors include R. Duffy,
OFM; J. Mueller, OSF; J. Burkhard, OFM
Conv.; and G. Ühlein, OSF.
2000: 185 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-167-3 $14.95
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My Heart’s Quest, Collected
Writings of Eric Doyle,
Friar Minor, Theologian
edited by Josef Raischl,
SFO and Andre Cirino,
OFM
Eric Doyle was a man
of vision. He sought for
answers to contemporary
issues in ecology, liberation theology,
ecumenism and the place of women in the
Church. This volume of more than 600 pages
includes articles on Franciscan Spirituality;
St. Bonaventure’s and Bl. John Duns Scotus’s
theology; Teilhard de Chardin; and various
theological and spiritual themes, such as the
theology of religious life or the future of the
papacy. Throughout the text, the editors wove
biographical notes, photos and memories of
people who knew Eric. Two of Eric’s recorded
talks accompany the text on separate CDs. A
complete bibliography closes the collection.
2005: 624 p.
Pb 978-0-9549272-0-2 $24.99
The Teacher of His Heart
Norbert Nguyên-Van
Khanh, OFM
There was a passion, an
intense energy of love that
drove Francis to center his
entire life in Christ. Christ
was, indeed, the teacher
of his heart. This book
concentrates on the Christological dimension
of Francis’s thought seen through the prism
of his writings and against the background of
the world in which he lived.
1994: 253 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-066-9 $14.95
That Others May Know
and Love: Essays in Honor
of Zachary Hayes, OFM
Michael F. Cusato, OFM
and F. Edward Coughlin,
OFM, eds
This collection of essays
honoring Zachary Hayes
reflects his theological interests
as well as the many ways he has stirred
the theological imagination and encouraged
others on their journey into God. Contributors
include Bernard McGinn; David Burr;
Ingrid Peterson, OSF.; David Tracy and
Girard Etzkorn.
1997: 342 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-130-7 $14.95
Rule of the Secular
Franciscan Order:
Origins, Development,
Interpretation
Robert M. Stewart
The Secular Franciscan
Order received a new rule
in 1978 from Pope Paul VI
which was intended to give
a new impetus to the Order so that it might
flourish vigorously. This book examines the
impact of that new rule while looking at the
Franciscan lay movement from its origin,
earliest expression and later transformation.
1991: 462 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-238-0 $29.95
Francis, The
Incomparable Saint
Joseph Lortz
Originally published in
German, this study was
immediately recognized
as a major contribution to
the world’s understanding
of Francis. This translation
explains the Spirit of St. Francis to the
English-speaking world.
1986: 128 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-067-6 $5.95
St. Francis of Assisi
by Thomas of Celano
translated by Placid
Hermann, OFM
The best way to get to
know Francis and his
message is to see him
through the eyes of
someone who knew him.
Thomas of Celano walked with Francis,
knew Francis and followed him. This
translation of Celano’s First and Second Life
of St. Francis enables us to see and experience
Francis as his contemporaries did.
1988: 406 p.
Pb 978-0-8199-0554-3 $24.95
Franciscan Studies and Faith Formation
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Washington Theological Union
Symposium Series
Greed, Lust and Power :
Franciscan Strategies for
Building a More Just World
Featured presenters, Joseph
Nangle, Michael Crosby,
Darleen Pryds and Vincent
Cushing. As our guides in this
process of conscientization,
the speakers, whose diverse
expertise and experiences exemplified the
distinctly Franciscan strategies they would
develop and present, challenged the Symposium’s
participants to engage with the
world in a way that is both informed by the
teachings of the Gospel and guided by the
principles of social analysis: observe, judge,
and act. In this way, we are able to discern
what our Franciscan responses to the needs
of a world infected by greed, lust, and
disordered uses of power should be, and so
develop strategies capable of affecting those
responses.
2011: 72 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-220-5 $14.00
Poverty and Prosperity:
Franciscans and
the Use of Money
These papers present a
thought-provoking investigation
into Franciscan
sources involving poverty
as well as insights from
practitioners to bring the
past into dialogue with the present in order
to help us understand how we might think
about our traditions.
2009: 112 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-158-1 $14.00
Moral Action in a
Complex World:
Franciscan Perspectives
Papers presented at the
Washington Theological
Union Symposium, May
2008. Featured presenters
include Brian Johnstone,
Thomas Shannon,
Katherine Getek, Thomas Nairn and Mary
Beth Ingham.
2008: 144 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-154-3 $14.00
Franciscan Evangelization:
Striving to Preach
the Gospel
This Volume contains
presentations by such
eminent scholars as
Dominic Monti, OFM, C. Colt
Anderson, Darleen
Pryds, and Joseph Chinnici, OFM.
2008: 128 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-148-2 $14.00
Franciscans and
Liturgical Life:
Let us Praise, Adore,
and Give Thanks
Contains essays by Catherine
Dooley, OP, Judith
Kubicki, CSSF, James
Sabak, OFM, William
Cieslak, OFM Cap, and Daniel Grigassy,
OFM.
2006: 96 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-141-3 $14.00
Franciscans and the
Scriptures: Living the
Word of God
This present volume
examines the range and
depth of contemporary
Catholic biblical scholarship.
Presentations by
Robert J. Karris, OFM, James Scullion, Dominic
Monti, OFM, and Michael D. Guirian demonstrate
what a rich harvest of insight and
depth is yielded by the application of careful
biblical sholarship to the “Franciscan
Movement.”
2006: 86 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-138-3 $14.00
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“Go Rebuild My House”
Franciscans and the
Church Today
Elise Saggau, OSF, ed.,
Essays address current
issues in the Church from
the perspective of Franciscan
theology and pastoral
care, and the desire
to follow the call to “Rebuild my church”
heard by Francis of Assisi. Authors include
C. Colt Anderson, Ph.D., John Burkhard,
OFM Conv., Vincent Cushing, OFM, Doris
Gottemoeller, RSM, and Katarina Schuth,
OSF.
2004: 112 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-194-9 $14.00
Franciscans and
Creation: What is Our
Responsibility?
The third volume of the
Franciscan Intellectual
Tradition series explores
the concept that creation
is a sacrament of God. In
the context of Franciscan
theology, created reality reveals God’s overflowing
goodness, reflected in the order,
beauty, and harmony of nature. Contributors
to this volume are John F. Haught,
Gabriele Ühlein, OSF, Dawn M. Nothwehr,
OSF, Keith Warner, OFM, Franklin Fong,
OFM, and Zachary Hayes, OFM Preface by
Ilia Delio, OSF.
2003: 112 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-190-1 $12.00
Franciscan Identity
and Postmodern Culture
Kathleen A. Warren, OSF,
ed
This volume explores the
demanding cultural context
in which the work of
the retrieval and revitalization
of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition
is undertaken. Among the contributors
Ilia Delio, OSF; John Burkhard, OFM
Conv.; Gabriele Ühlein, OSF.
2003: 128 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-186-4 $12.00
The Franciscan
Intellectual Tradition
Elise Saggau, OSF, ed.,
This first volume of the
series explores the intellectual
inheritance of the
Franciscan
Order as articulated
through the centuries.
Contributions to this volume include Zachary
Hayes, OFM; Kenan Osborne, OFM;
Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ.
2001: 160 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-180-2 $12.00
Washington Theological Union
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Franciscan Institute Publications
Classic works
Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four
John E. Lynch, CSP
French Franciscan Vital Du Four was a counselor
to two popes, Clement V and John XXII,
and was a central figure in the poverty controversy
of the early fourteenth century.
1972: 216 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-103-1 $14.95
John de la Rochelle – Eleven Marian Sermons
This volume contains John de la Rochelle’s Marian
sermons which contain specific treatment
of Marian doctrine and includes four sermons
on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
four sermons on the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, one sermon on the Annunciation,
one on the Purification and one on the Nativity
of the Lord.
1961: 103 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-054-6 $14.95
Identity & Distinction in Petrus Thomae
Geoffrey G. Bridges, OFM
Because the Spanish Franciscan Friar Petrus
Thomae (died about 1350) was an immediate
disciple of John Duns Scotus, it is natural that
his doctrine reflects the teaching of the master
and contributes to its better understanding. The
important place which the formal distinction
occupies in the system of Scotus is well known.
Petrus Thomae composed an extensive work
entitled De Formalitatibus, in which he explains
and defends this much-criticized Scotistic position.
1959: 186 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-102-4 $9.95
Collected Articles on Ockham
Philotheus Boehner, OFM, and Eligius M.
Buytaert, OFM
In preparation for the projected critical edition
of Ockham’s Opera Philosophica et Theologica,
Philotheus Boehner, OFM, described the extant
manuscripts and discussed the authenticity and
date of composition of Ockham’s writings. He
also studied and illustrated Ockham’s teaching
on logic, metaphysics, and political theories.
Eligius Buytaert, OFM, Boehner’s successor and
disciple collected, regrouped, and indexed 24
articles in this volume, which is an indispensable
introduction to the study of William of
Ockham.
1992: 482 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-101-7 $19.95
History of the Controversy Over the Debitum
Peccati
Juniper P. Carol, OFM
The object of this work is to study the genesis of
the spirited debate between deitists and anti-deitists
regarding the Immaculate Conception.
1978: 260 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-026-3 $14.95
Studies Honoring Ingnatius Charles Brady,
Friar Minor
edited by Romano Stephen Almagno and Conrad
L. Harkins
This collection of more than 20 essays that are
considered to be the nearest to the heart, thought,
and science of Ignatius Charles Brady and are
presented in honor of this 20th century giant of
Medieval scholarship.
1976: 496 p.
Hc 978-1-57659-029-4 $24.95
De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior
by Walter Burleigh, edited by Philotheus Boehner,
OFM
Critical editions of two 13th century manuscripts
written by the Englishman Magister
Walter Buleigh containing his systemic work on
Logic.
1955: 264 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-057-7 $12.95
First Gospel, Genesis 3:15
Dominic J. Unger, OFM Cap
Examination of Genesis and its connection to
Mary’s Immaculate Conception.
1954: 632 p.
Pb 978-1-57659-030-0 $14.95
Three Heroes of Assisi in World War II
by Andre Cirino, OFM and Josef Raischl
In 1943-44, amidst the horrors of war, Assisi
had another time of true glory. While the Allies
had just landed in Sicily, Assisi was occupied
by German troops. There, three men worked
together to do something constructive rather
than destructive: Bishop Giuseppe Nicolini, the
German commander, a medical doctor, Col.
Valentin Müller and Don Aldo Brunacci.
Divided by the war, they remained nevertheless
united by their Christian faith and its mandate
of unconditional love. They obtained that Assisi
be made a hospital city, a city for medical care,
not for military confrontation; a city for healing,
not for fighting. The anthology highlights the
heroic efforts of Nicolini and Brunacci by which
many Jewish refugees survived, correcting the
distorted historical account of the book and film
“Assisi Underground.”
2005: 150 p.
Pb 978-8-88702-173-8 $24.95
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Classic Works

journals
The Cord (Quarterly Journal)
Daria Mitchell, OSF, General Editor
The Cord, a quarterly review which deals with topics having to
do with the Franciscan spiritual tradition, celebrates sixty years
of continuous publication in 2010. It offers articles of historical
interest, as well as articles dealing with contemporary applications.
Its primary purpose is to promote a deeper knowledge and
more ardent love of the Franciscan way of life.
Back Issues are available upon request.
Domestic $30.00 (USD) includes postage.
International: $35.00 (USD) includes postage.
Franciscan Studies (Annual Journal)
Jean- François Godet-Calogeras, General Editor
Franciscan Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published
by the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University
since 1942. It deals with Franciscan matters: history, philosophy,
theology, and art. Its 2010 issue (Volume 68) is now available. It
contains contributions of international scholars on a variety of
topics: Jordan of Saxon, the Secular Mendicant controversy in
Paris in the 13th century, Bonaventure, Roger Bacon, Jon Duns
Scotus, Walter Burley, Marcus of Orvieto, John of Capistano, and
Johann Meder. Back issues are available upon request.
Domestic $60.00 (USD) includes postage.
International $70.00 (USD) includes postage.
Vita Evangelica: Essays In Honor of Margaret Carney, OSF
Franciscan Studies - Volume 64, 2006
In this special edition of Franciscan Studies, Sr. Margaret Carney,
OSF is honored by a series of articles on her 65th birthday.
Limited Edition - $50.00
Greyfriars Review (Quartlerly Journal)
Greyfriars Review is a journal that extends to the Englishspeaking
world a valuable resource for contemporary Franciscan
theology, spirituality, and history through the translation and
publication of articles that are either not readily accessible or not
available to many in the English-speaking world.
Greyfriars Review takes its name from the first Franciscan convent
founded in the English-speaking world. The followers of
St. Francis first came to Oxford, England, in 1224, less than forty
years after its recognition as a university.
Subscription includes 3 issues per year and a supplement. Airmail
delivery is not available. Subscriptions begin with the first
issue of each year. Back issues are available upon request.
Domestic/International $42.00 (USD) includes postage
Journals
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Author index
A
Alberzoni, Maria Pia 14
Almagno, Romano Stephen 28
Anderson, C. Colt 26, 27
Armstrong, Regis J. 14, 15
B
Badin, Gratien 18
Bequette, John P. 23
Blastic, Michael W. 2, 12, 13, 14, 15
Boehner, Philotheus 4, 28
Bonnano, Raphael 16
Bougerol, J. Guy 7
Brawer, Catherine Coleman 22
Bridges, Geoffrey G. 28
Brunette, Pierre 14
Bullido del Barrio, Susana 9
Burkhard, John 24, 27
Burleigh, Walter 28
Burr, David 16, 25
Buytaert, Eligius M. 28
Bychkov, Oleg 8
C
Calabria, Michael 19
Calisi, Maria 20, 21
Camps, Arnulf 17
Carmody, Maurice 17
Carney, Margaret 15, 18, 20, 29
Carol, Juniper P. 28
Carrozzo, Anthony 20, 24
Celaschi, Nancy 10
Caudar, F. Betul 19
Chinnici, Joseph 3, 26
Cieslak, William 26
Cirino, André 23, 25, 28
Clasen, Sophronius 17
Cotter, Francis 18
Coughlin, F. Edward 6, 25
Crosby, Michael 3, 26
Cummins, Bishop John 3, 19
Cusato, Michael F. 2, 10, 12, 15, 19, 25
Cushing, Vincent 3, 20, 26, 27
D
Dalarun, Jacques 10, 11
Daniel, E. Randolph 16, 18
de Beer, Francis 12
Delio, Ilia 20, 22, 27
Desbonnets, Theophile 24
de Vink, Jose 6
Dhont, René Charles 15
Dooley, Catherine 26
Doyle, Eric 13, 25
Duffy, Regis A. 3, 19, 24
Dwyer, Daniel 20
E
Eckert, Edward K. 22
Esser, Cajetan 17
Etzkorn, Girard 25
F
Flood, David 10, 13, 18
Fong, Franklin 27
Freyer, Johannes B. 3, 19
G
Gál, Gedeon 18
Gandolfi, Domenico 17
Getek, Katherine 26
Godet-Calogeras, Jean- François 2, 12, 14,
18, 19, 29
Gottemoeller, Doris 27
Grigassy, Daniel 26
Guinan, Michael D. 3, 19, 21, 26
Gurley, Mary C. 24
H
Hammond, Jay M. 2, 7, 12
Harkins, Conrad L. 28
Haught, John F. 27
Hayes, Zachary 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19, 25, 27
Hellmann, J.A. Wayne 2, 7, 12
Hermann, Placid 25
Himes, Kenneth 20
Hines, Hugh 20
Hoeberichts, Jan 12, 13, 19
Honnefelder, Ludger 9
Hutmacher, Robert 23
I
Ingham, Mary Beth 3, 8, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27
30
Author Index

J
Johnson, Timothy J. 6, 7
Johnstone, Brian 26
Jordan, Mark 20
K
Karecki, Madge 19
Karris, Robert J. 2, 5, 6, 11, 16, 26
Knox, Lezlie 2, 14
Kobusch, Theo 9
Krug, Kathryn 14
Kubicki, Judith 26
Kush, Suzanne M. 18
L
Lachance, Paul 3, 10, 12, 14, 19, 20
Lambert, Malcolm 12
Lentz, Robert 19
Lopez, Elisabeth 3, 16
Lortz, Joseph 25
Lynch, Cyprian J. 18
Lynch, John E. 28
M
MacVicar, Thaddeus 18
Manselli, Raoul 13
Marcil, George 23
Matura, Thaddée 3, 10, 11
McCarthy, Ann 22
McCarthy, Daniel 22
McCarthy, Robert 22
McCloskey, Pat 17
McElrath, Damian 23
McGinn, Bernard 25
McKelvie, Roberta 15, 17, 19, 20, 24
McMicael, Steven J. 16
Meiere Dunn, Hildreth 22
Melucci, Donatella 10
Merlo, Grado Giovanni 16
Millane, Pacelli 15, 16
Miller, Ramona 14
Mitchell, Daria 29
Mohle, Hannes 9
Moleta, Vincent 12
Monti, Dominic V. 5, 6, 20, 24, 26
Moons, Anselm 20
Moorman, John R. H. 13, 16, 18
Mueller, Joan 15, 24
Murray, Campion 5
Myers, Susan E. 16
N
Nairn, Thomas 26
Nangle, Joseph 3, 26
Nguyên-Van Khanh, Norbert 25
Nothwehr, Dawn M. 21, 27
O
Oligny, Paul J. 18
O’Mara, Philip 7
Omar, Irfan A. 19
O’Neil, Blane 8
Osborne, Kenan 16, 22, 27
P
Pazzelli, Raffaele 14
Pellegrini, Luigi 2
Peterson, Ingrid 2, 14, 15, 25
Prentice, Robert P. 7
Pryds, Darleen 3, 21, 26
R
Raischl, Josef 23, 25, 28
Reist, Thomas 6
Rusconi, Roberto 10
S
Sabak, James 26
Saggau, Elise 19, 20, 24, 27
Salvati, Carl 10
Schuth, Katarina 27
Schwartz, Paul 12
Scullion, James 26
Shannon, Thomas 8, 26
Sheehan, Maurice W. 14
Short, William J. 2, 3, 12, 19
Spaeth, Paul 5
Speer, Andreas 9
Stainton, Elaine Banks 22
Stewart, Robert M. 25
T
Thibaudeau, Adele 20
Todeschini, Giacomo 10
Tracy, David 25
U
Ühlein, Gabriele 20, 24, 27
Unger, Dominic J. 28
V
van den Goorbergh, Edith 11
Vian, Nello 24
Vorreux, Damien 12
Vos, Antonie 3, 19
W
Waller, Joanna 3, 16
Walsh, Flavian 20
Warner, Keith 19, 27
Warren, Kathleen A. 27
White, Joseph M. 17
Willeke, Berward 17
Wolter, Allan B. 3, 8, 9, 19, 25
Z
Zweerman, Theodore 11
Author Index
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title index
A
Admonitions of St. Francis: Sources and Meanings, The 11
Angelo Clareno: A Chronicle or History of the Seven Tribulations of the Order of Brothers
Minor 16
Anthony of Padua, Sermones for the Easter Cycle 23
B
Birth of a Movement, The 13
Bonaventure: Mystic of God’s Word 7
Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John 6
Book of Life: An Explanation of the Rule of the Third Order Regular 25
Breviloquium 6
Build With Living Stones 23
C
Care of Souls and the Rhetoric of Moral Theology in Bonaventure and Thomas, The 20
Clare Among Her Sisters 15
Clare and Francis: O Let the Faithful People Sing 23
Clare and the Poor Sisters in the Thirteenth Century 14
Clare of Assisi: A Medieval and Modern Woman: Clarefest Selected Papers 15
Clare of Assisi – Investigations 15
Clare of Assisi: The Lady 14
Clare’s Letters to Agnes: Texts and Sources 15
Colette of Corbie (1381-1447): Learning and Holiness 3, 16
Collations on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit 6
Collations on the Ten Commandments 5
Collected Articles on Ockham 28
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part I: Chapters 1-8. 5
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part II: Chapters 9-16. 5
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Part III: Chapters 17-24. 5
Cord, The 29
D
Daily Labor of the Early Franciscans, The 10
Daring to Embrace the Other: Franciscans and Muslims in Dialogue 19
Defense of the Mendicants 6
De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior 28
Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection 6
Divine and Created Order in Bonaventure’s Theology 7
Dying, As A Franciscan 3, 19
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Title Index

E
Early Franciscan Movement (1205-1239): History, Sources and Hermeneutics, The 10
Eloquence of Sanctity: Rhetoric in Thomas Of Celano’s ‘Vita Prima Sancti Francisci’, The
23
Ethical Method of John Duns Scotus 20
Ethical Theory of John Duns Scotus, The 8
F
First Encounter with Francis of Assisi 12
First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assisi & Her Form of Life, The 15
First Gospel, Genesis 3:15 28
Francis and Islam 12
Franciscan Charism in Higher Education, The 20
Franciscan Christology 23
Franciscan Concept of Mission in the High Middle Ages 18
Franciscan Evangelization: Striving to Preach the Gospel 26
Franciscan Identity and Postmodern Culture 27
Franciscan Intellectual Tradition The 27
Franciscan Intellectual Tradition: Tracing Its Origins and Identifying Its Central Components,
The 22
Franciscan Leader: A Modern Version of the Six Wings of the Seraph. An Anonymous
Franciscan Treatise in the Tradition of St. Bonaventure, The 7
Franciscan Poverty 12, 18
Franciscan Spirituals & the Capuchin Reform, The 18
Franciscan View of Creation: Learning to Live in a Sacramental World, A 22
Franciscan View of the Human Person: Some Central Elements, The 21
Franciscan Vision and the Gospel of John: The San Damiano Crucifix, Francis and John,
Creation and John, The 21
Franciscans and Creation: What is Our Responsibility? 27
Franciscans and Healthcare: What is the Future? 24
Franciscans and Liturgical Life: Let us Praise, Adore, and Give Thanks 26
Franciscans and the Scriptures: Living the Word of God 26
Franciscans Doing Theology: An Independent Study Program to Accompany the History
of Franciscan Theology 24
Franciscans in Urban Ministry 24
Franciscan Solitude 23
Franciscan Studies 1, 20, 23, 24, 25, 29
Franciscan Studies: The Difference Women are Making 20
Franciscan Wealth: From Voluntary Poverty to Market Society 10
Francis of Assisi and His Conversions 14
Francis of Assisi and Power 11
Francis of Assisi and the Feminine 11
Francis of Assisi: Heritage and Heirs Eight Centuries Later 3, 10
Francis of Asssi: The Message in His Writings 11
Francis, The Incomparable Saint 25
Friars Minor in China 17
Friars Minor in Ireland from Their Arrival to 1400 18
From Intuition to Institution: The Franciscans 24
From St. Francis to Giotto 12
Title Index
33

G
Golden Words – The Sayings of Brother Giles of Assisi 24
“Go Rebuild My House” Franciscans and the Church Today 27
Good Journey: 150 Years of History at St. Bonaventure University, The 22
Greed, Lust and Power : Franciscan Strategies for Building a More Just World 3, 26
Greyfriars Review 29
H
Harmony of Goodness, The 8
Hidden Center, The 7
History of Franciscan Theology, The 16
History of the Controversy Over the Debitum Peccati 28
History of the Franciscan Order 16
History of The Third Order Regular Rule: A Source Book 18
I
Identity & Distinction in Petrus Thomae 28
I Know Christ 18
In Solitude and Dialogue: Contemporary Franciscans Theologize 24
In the Footsteps of St. Clare: A Pilgrim’s Guide Book 14
In the Name of Saint Francis: A History of the Friars Minor and Franciscanism until the
Early Sixteenth Century 16
Introduc tion to The Works of Bonaventure 7
Islam and Franciscanism: A Dialogue 20
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (Journey of the Soul Into God) 4
J
John de la Rochelle – Eleven Marian Sermons 28
John Duns Scotus. A Treatise on Potency and Act. Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle
Book IX 9
John Duns Scotus. Early Oxford Lecture on Individuation 9
John Duns Scotus. Four Questions on Mary 9
John Duns Scotus: Mary’s Architect 8
John Duns Scotus, Philosopher: Proceedings of “The Quadruple Congress” on John Duns
Scotus Subsidia 3 8
John Duns Scotus, Philosopher: Proceedings of “The Quadruple Congress” on John Duns
Scotus Subsidia 5 9
John Duns Scotus. Political and Economic Philosophy 9
L
Leonine Union of the Order of Friars Minor 1897, The 17
M
Medieval Franciscan Houses 18
Medieval Franciscans: Volume 2 Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, The
16
Mirroring One Another, Reflecting the Divine: The Franciscan-Muslim Journey Into God
19
Misadventure of Francis of Assisi, The 11
Mission in the Franciscan Tradition 20
Moral Action in a Complex World: Franciscan Perspectives 26
My Heart’s Quest, Collected Writings of Eric Doyle, Friar Minor, Theologian 25
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Title Index

N
Nicolaus Minorita: Chronica (The Early 13th Century Poverty Controversy) 18
O
On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology (De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam) 4
Origins of the Franciscan Order 17
P
Paradise Restored 13
“Peace and Good” in America, A History of the Holy Name Province, Order of the Friars
Minor 1850s to the present 17
Peter of John Olivi: Commentary on the Gospel of Mark 2
Poor Man’s Legacy: An Anthology of Franciscan Poverty, A 18
Poverty and Prosperity: Franciscans and the Use of Money 26
Psychology of Love According to St. Bonaventure 7
R
Refounding in the Franciscan Tradition 20
Rejoicing in the Works of the Lord: Beauty in the Franciscan Tradition 21
Respectfully Yours: Signed and Sealed, Francis of Assisi. Aspects of His Authorship and
Focuses of His Spirituality. 11
Retrieving a Living Tradition: Angelina of Montegiove: Franciscan, Tertiary, Beguine 17
Rule of the Friars Minor, 1209-2009: Historical Perspectives, Lived Realties 19
Rule of the Secular Franciscan Order: Origins, Development, Interpretation 25
Rules, Testament and Admonitions 2, 12
S
St. Anthony Doctor of the Church 17
St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes 5
St. Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ 5
St. Bonaventure’s Writings Concerning the Franciscan Order 5
Saint Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity 5
St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood and Sisterhood 13
St. Francis and the Third Order: The Francisan and pre-Franciscan Penitential Movement 14
St. Francis of Assisi 13, 14, 25
St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Commemoration 14
Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings of Francis of Assisi – Letters and Prayers 2, 12
Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings of Francis of Assisi – Rules, Testaments and
Admonitions 2, 12
Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings of Clare of Assisi 2, 12
Scotus and Ockham Selected Essays 9
Scotus for Dunces: An Introduction to the Subtle Doctor 8
Stigmata of Francis of Assisi, The 10
Studies Honoring Ingnatius Charles Brady, Friar Minor 28
Studies in Early Franciscan Sources: Writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi 2, 14
Study of the Rule of 1223: History, Exegesis and Reflection, A 13
Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure, The 6
T
That Others May Know and Love: Essays in Honor of Zachary Hayes, OFM 25
Three Heroes of Assisi in World War II 28
Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four 28
Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi: Clare Discovers the Love of God in the Church 15
Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi: Clare’s Form of Gospel Life 15
Towards the Discovery of Clare of Assisi: Fraternal Life 15
Trinitarian Perspectives in the Franciscan Theological Tradition 21
True Followers of Justice: Identity, Insertion, and Itinerancy among the Early Franciscans
19
Title Index
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U
Unencumbered Heart A Tribute to Clare of Assisi 1253-2003, An 19
V
Vita Evangelica: Essays In Honor of Margaret Carney, OSF 29
W
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meiere 22
We Saw Brother Francis 12
Women of the Streets, Early Franciscan Women and Their Mendicant Vocation 21
Words Made Flesh: Essays Honoring Kenan B. Osborne, OFM 3, 19
Writings of Clare, The 2, 14
Writings of Francis: Letters and Prayers, The 2, 12
Writings of Francis: Rules, Testament and Admonitions, The 2, 12
Writings on the Spiritual Life 6
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