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The Enthusiast: How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi almost Destroyed what he Started
Category: Books > Biographies > Lives of the Saints
Author/Artist: JON M SWEENEY
ISBN / ID: 9781594716010
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$37.95
  
Description: Popular historian Jon M. Sweeney relates the untold story of St. Francis's friendship with Elias of Cortona, the man who helped him build the Franciscan movement. Sweeney uses the complexities of their relationship in a gripping narrative of how their efforts changed the world and how Elias's enthusiasm betrayed the ideals of his friend. Few biographies of St. Francis have examined his complicated relationship with close friend Elias of Cortona. In The Enthusiast, Sweeney delves into this little-known partnership that defined and yet almost destroyed the Franciscan movement. Blending history and biography, Sweeney reveals how Francis and Elias rebuilt churches, aided lepers, and entertained as "God's troubadours" to the delight of everyday people who had grown tired of a remote and tumultuous Church.
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