G. K. Chestertons celebrated biography of St. Francis of Assisi, presented here in a fully illustrated edition featuring twelve original fullpage illustrations by Robert Scott Crandall.Born in 1181 to wealth and privilege in the hill town of Assisi, Francis lived the early life of a young noblemandrawn to military ambition, romance, and display. His capture during the war between Assisi and Perugia, and the year he spent imprisoned at Collestrada, marked the beginning of a profound transformation. A subsequent vision in 1205 redirected his life entirely, leading him away from worldly ambition and toward radical spiritual commitment.What followed was one of the most influential religious lives of the Middle Ages. Francis renounced material inheritance, embraced voluntary poverty, and founded what would become the Franciscan Orderan enduring movement devoted to humility, service, and love of creation. Chesterton approaches his subject not merely as historian, but as philosophical interpreter, illuminating the paradoxes and moral clarity that made Francis both revolutionary and deeply orthodox.This Illustrated Edition enhances Chestertons classic study with twelve original fullpage illustrations by Robert Scott Crandall, offering readers a visual complement to one of the most insightful modern portraits of the saint who reshaped Christian imagination.

Binding: Hardcover;128 pages; Publisher: Wilder Publications; Classification: N/A; Weight: 482.42 g; Dimensions: N/A

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