St. Francis of Assisi: A Great Life in Brief

Great Lives in Brief

by Almedingen Martha Edith

. with dustjacket, 1967 1st bright clean copy

Genres: Biography

1000 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[J. Alfred]

Not brilliantly written, but delivered the goods on Francis, the "Little Brother", as he called himself. I love everything I hear about this man: I want to learn more about all the men we call saint, having learned more about this one. Like Chesterton exclaims: "how pitifully similar are all the Tyrants of history! How gloriously different the saints!"

[June]

The writing was fine, but why is he the patron saint of animals?? Doesn't say anything about it in the book and there was one really disturbing incident with a pig...Mostly he just seems mentally ill.