The Life of Saint Francis: The Major Legend

The official life of the Poverello, written by the Seraphic Doctor himself.

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About this edition

When Saint Francis of Assisi died in 1226, the accounts of his life had already begun to multiply and, in places, to disagree. In 1260 the General Chapter of the Friars Minor charged one man, Bonaventure, its Minister General, whom the Church honours as the Seraphic Doctor, with composing a single authoritative Life. The Legenda Maior, which he completed in 1263, was received by the Order as the official life of its founder.

It follows Francis from his worldly youth in Assisi through his conversion, the founding of the Order and its Rule, his poverty, humility and burning love, to the sealing of his body with the sacred Stigmata upon Mount Alvernia, his death and his canonisation, and closes with the narration of the miracles wrought at his tomb.

This Sanctified Souls Press edition presents the work complete and unabridged, in the translation of E. Gurney Salter, on cream paper, for reading and keeping.

Details

• Saint Bonaventure (c. 1217–1274), the Seraphic Doctor, Minister General of the Friars Minor
• Translated by E. Gurney Salter, Temple Classics, 1904
• Complete: the Prologue, fifteen chapters, and the concluding book of miracles
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 158 pages, cream paper

Cover: Saint Francis, engraving by Johann Sadeler I (Netherlandish, 1550–1600/01) after Bartholomeus Spranger, c. 1582. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.

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