Damien Vorreux FiRST ENCOUNTER WiTh FRANCiS OF ASSiSi
Damien Vorreux FiRST ENCOUNTER WiTh FRANCiS OF ASSiSi
Damien Vorreux FiRST ENCOUNTER WiTh FRANCiS OF ASSiSi
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contEnts<br />
Foreword 7<br />
Preface: Why You? 9<br />
I. The Century before the Outbreak 11<br />
The Golden Century 11<br />
The Century of the Commune 12<br />
The Crisis of Monasticism 14<br />
Structure and Heresies 14<br />
Pilgrims and Crusades 15<br />
Knights and Troubadours 17<br />
The Century of Lay People 18<br />
II. “I was seized by Christ” 21<br />
Umbria and Assisi 21<br />
Milord Bernardone and Lady Pica 23<br />
Captivity: A Year’s Retreat 24<br />
Among the Lepers: A Hard Novitiate 25<br />
The “Go!” that Creates Prophets 28<br />
“Leave Your Home!” 29<br />
A Reading of the Gospel 30<br />
In a Christendom in a State of Council 31<br />
“The Jugglers of God” 33<br />
The Spread of the Order 34<br />
A Sense of the Human 37<br />
Our Brother Saracens 38<br />
The Stigmata 40<br />
Death 42<br />
The First Generation of Franciscans 44
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