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Advent with the Saints: Francis of Assisi
A fond childhood memory for me is setting up my grandmother’s huge nativity set, with dozens of figures, depicting various crafts and artisans. When I finished, I liked to put my face close to the figures and imagine being in the scene myself. Little did I know I was acting out an impulse of the saint who would also be my spiritual father later in life—St. Francis of Assisi. Every Franciscan’s heart is somehow linked to the nativity scene, in pa…
In December 1223, Francis of Assisi no longer had anything of the young man who toured preaching in the south of France, Spain, Italy, and even reached Egypt with the fifth crusade (1217-1221). He was just over forty years old, the body marked by illness and was already a saint in life.In the small town of Greccio, in the Italian Apennines, Francis of Assisi introduced a new way of celebrating Christmas, a change in the way of perceiving the bir…
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