The Story of Assisi

This is a reproduction of a book published before This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: Read more Read less.

Here's how restrictions apply. Nabu Press March 10, Language: Start reading The Story of Assisi on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews.

The city came again under papal jurisdiction under the rule of Pope Pius II — In construction was started of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. During the Renaissance and in later centuries, the city continued to develop peacefully, as the 17th-century palazzi of the Bernabei and Giacobetti attest. Now the site of many a pilgrimage, Assisi is linked in legend with its native son, St. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with St.

Francis of Assisi

Catherine of Siena as the patron saint of Italy. He is remembered by many, even non-Christians, as a lover of nature his preaching to an audience of birds is one of the legends of his life. Assisi was hit by two devastating earthquakes , that shook Umbria in September But the recovery and restoration have been remarkable, although much remains to be done. Massive damage was caused to many historical sites, but the major attraction, the Basilica di San Francesco, reopened less than 2 years later. The town is dominated by two medieval castles.

The larger, called Rocca Maggiore , is a massive reconstruction by Cardinal Albornoz and expanded by popes Pius II polygonal tower, and Paul III the cylindrical bastion near the entrance, The smaller of the two was built in Roman era: Assisi has had a rich tradition of art through the centuries and is now home to a number of well known artistic works. The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi includes a number of artistic works. Simone Martini's fresco there reflects the influence of Giotto in realism and the use of brilliant colors.

Lorenzetti's fresco at the lower church of the Basilica includes a series of panels depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus , Deposition from the Cross , and Entombment of Christ. The figures Lorenzetti painted display emotions, yet the figures in these scenes are governed by geometric emotional interactions, unlike many prior depictions which appeared to be independent iconic aggregations.

Lorenzetti's Madonna dei Tramonti also reflects the ongoing influence of Giotto on his Marian art , midway through his career. The Calendimaggio Festival takes place on the first four days of May ending on a Saturday. It is a re-enactment of medieval and Renaissance life in the form of a challenge between the upper faction and the lower faction of the town. It includes processions, theatrical presentations, choirs, crossbow, flag-waving and dancing contests. Assisi Embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery which has been practised in Assisi since the 13th century.

He later became associated with patronage of animals and the natural environment , and it became customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October. He is often remembered as the patron saint of animals. In , he went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan to put an end to the conflict of the Crusades. He returned to Italy to organize the Order. Once his community was authorized by the Pope, he withdrew increasingly from external affairs.

Francis is also known for his love of the Eucharist. Francis of Assisi was born in late or early , one of several children of an Italian father, Pietro di Bernardone, a prosperous silk merchant, and a French mother, Pica de Bourlemont, about whom little is known except that she was a noblewoman originally from Provence. Indulged by his parents, Francis lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man. He spent money lavishly. In this account, he was selling cloth and velvet in the marketplace on behalf of his father when a beggar came to him and asked for alms.

• Diners of New York.
• The Story Of Assisi Lady Lucie Duff Gordon: www.newyorkethnicfood.com: Books!
• Perry The Parrot (A Beautifully Illustrated Childrens Picture Rhyming Book With Funny Pictures: Perfect For Bedtime Stories!).
• Item Preview.
• Navigation menu.

At the conclusion of his business deal, Francis abandoned his wares and ran after the beggar. When he found him, Francis gave the man everything he had in his pockets. His friends quickly chided and mocked him for his act of charity. When he got home, his father scolded him in rage. Around , he joined a military expedition against Perugia and was taken as a prisoner at Collestrada, spending a year as a captive. It is possible that his spiritual conversion was a gradual process rooted in this experience. Upon his return to Assisi in , Francis returned to his carefree life.

A strange vision made him return to Assisi, having lost his taste for the worldly life. In response, they asked him laughingly whether he was thinking of marrying, to which he answered, "Yes, a fairer bride than any of you have ever seen", meaning his "Lady Poverty". On a pilgrimage to Rome, he joined the poor in begging at St.

He said he had a mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the forsaken country chapel of San Damiano , just outside Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins.

• COMMANDERS LOST TREASURES YOU CAN FIND IN THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA - FULL COLOR EDITION;
• A Gentlemans Promise: (Hot Regency Read) (Scandalous Series Book 1).
• Special offers and product promotions.
• The Story of Assisi by Lina Duff Gordon?
• À un prince ignorant (French Edition).
• Download This eBook?

In order to avoid his father's wrath, Francis hid in a cave near San Damiano for about a month. When he returned to town, hungry and dirty, he was dragged home by his father, beaten, bound, and locked in a small storeroom. Freed by his mother during Bernardone's absence, Francis returned at once to San Damiano, where he found shelter with the officiating priest, but he was soon cited before the city consuls by his father.

The latter, not content with having recovered the scattered gold from San Damiano, sought also to force his son to forego his inheritance by way of restitution. In the midst of legal proceedings before the Bishop of Assisi , Francis renounced his father and his patrimony. For the next couple of months Francis wandered as a beggar in the hills behind Assisi. He spent some time at a neighbouring monastery working as a scullion.

He then went to Gubbio, where a friend gave him, as an alms, the cloak, girdle, and staff of a pilgrim. Returning to Assisi, he traversed the city begging stones for the restoration of St. These he carried to the old chapel, set in place himself, and so at length rebuilt it. Over the course of two years, he embraced the life of a penitent , during which he restored several ruined chapels in the countryside around Assisi, among them San Pietro in Spina in the area of San Petrignano in the valley about a kilometer from Rivotorto, today on private property and once again in ruin ; and the Porziuncola , the little chapel of St.

Mary of the Angels in the plain just below the town. One morning in February , Francis was hearing Mass in the chapel of St. Mary of the Angels, near which he had then built himself a hut. The disciples are to go and proclaim that the Kingdom of God is at hand. Francis was inspired to devote himself to a life of poverty.

Having obtained a coarse woolen tunic, the dress then worn by the poorest Umbrian peasants, he tied it around him with a knotted rope and went forth at once exhorting the people of the country-side to penance, brotherly love, and peace. Francis' preaching to ordinary people was unusual since he had no license to do so. His example drew others to him.

The story of Assisi

Within a year Francis had eleven followers. The brothers lived a simple life in the deserted lazar house of Rivo Torto near Assisi; but they spent much of their time wandering through the mountainous districts of Umbria , making a deep impression upon their hearers by their earnest exhortations. In he composed a simple rule for his followers "friars" , the Regula primitiva or "Primitive Rule", which came from verses in the Bible.

The rule was "To follow the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ and to walk in his footsteps". Reluctantly, Pope Innocent agreed to meet with Francis and the brothers the next day. After several days, the pope agreed to admit the group informally, adding that when God increased the group in grace and number, they could return for an official admittance.

Product details

The group was tonsured. Though a number of the Pope's counselors considered the mode of life proposed by Francis as unsafe and impractical, following a dream in which he saw Francis holding up the Basilica of St. John Lateran the cathedral of Rome, thus the 'home church' of all Christendom , he decided to endorse Francis' Order. This occurred, according to tradition, on April 16, , and constituted the official founding of the Franciscan Order. From then on, the new Order grew quickly with new vocations.

Hearing Francis preaching in the church of San Rufino in Assisi in , the young noblewoman Clare of Assisi became deeply touched by his message and realized her calling. Her cousin Rufino, the only male member of the family in their generation, was also attracted to the new Order, which he joined. On the night of Palm Sunday , March 28, , Clare clandestinely left her family's palace. Francis received her at the Porziuncola and thereby established the Order of Poor Ladies.

Later he transferred them to San Damiano, [3] to a few small huts or cells of wattle, straw, and mud, and enclosed by a hedge. For those who could not leave their homes, he later formed the Third Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance , a fraternity composed of either laity or clergy whose members neither withdrew from the world nor took religious vows.

Instead, they observed the principles of Franciscan life in their daily lives. Determined to bring the Gospel to all peoples of the World, Francis sought on several occasions to take his message out of Italy. In the late spring of , he set out for Jerusalem, but was shipwrecked by a storm on the Dalmatian coast, forcing him to return to Italy. In the same year, Francis sailed for Morocco, but this time an illness forced him to break off his journey in Spain.

Back in Assisi, several noblemen among them Tommaso da Celano , who would later write the biography of St. Francis , and some well-educated men joined his Order. During this time, he probably met a canon , Dominic de Guzman [4] later to be Saint Dominic, the founder of the Friars Preachers, another Catholic religious order. In , he offered to go to France. Cardinal Ugolino of Segni the future Pope Gregory IX , an early and important supporter of Francis, advised him against this and said that he was still needed in Italy.

In , accompanied by another friar and hoping to convert the Sultan of Egypt or win martyrdom in the attempt, Francis went to Egypt during the Fifth Crusade where a Crusader army had been encamped for over a year besieging the walled city of Damietta two miles 3. The Sultan, al-Kamil , a nephew of Saladin , had succeeded his father as Sultan of Egypt in and was encamped upstream of Damietta, unable to relieve it.

The Story of Assisi by Lina Duff Gordon - Free Ebook

A bloody and futile attack on the city was launched by the Christians on August 29, , following which both sides agreed to a ceasefire which lasted four weeks. Such an incident is alluded to in a scene in the late 13th-century fresco cycle, attributed to Giotto, in the upper basilica at Assisi. The scene in the fresco adopts a position midway between the two extremes. Since the idea was put forward by the German art historian, Friedrich Rintelen in , [30] many scholars have expressed doubt that Giotto was the author of the Upper Church frescoes. According to some late sources, the Sultan gave Francis permission to visit the sacred places in the Holy Land and even to preach there.