Biographies St. Francis of Assisi

If you would like to know more about St. Francis and the Franciscan Orders, here are some suggested books you might find interesting and helpful. If you would like to recommend a book to us so we can put it on our list, please make sure you give: the name of the book, author, year and publisher and E-Mail it to us with your comments in our Guest Book.

Contemporary Franciscan Scholarship and the
new Francis of Assisi: Early Documents
Volume I The Saint
Volume II The Founder
Volume III The Prophet
INDEX: This long awaited volume contains a
- Thematic Index
- Names Index
- Places Index
- Bibliography of Sources
- Scripture Index

All three volume's are now available.
A collaborative effort of the entire English-speaking Franciscan family, this series presents new translations of texts about Francis in the early Franciscan tradition. In some instances, these texts are available for the first time in English translation; in all instances they have been annotated in light of recent scholarship.
Editors: Regis J. Armstrong, OFM. Cap.
J.A. Wayne Hellmann, OFM.
Conv. William J. Short, OFM Publisher:
NEW CITY PRESS
Hyde Park, NY 12538
Tel: 800-462-5980

SIMPLY BONAVENTURE
An Introduction to His Life, Thought, and Writings
Author: Ilia Delio, O.S.F.
Published by: New City Press
202 Cardinal Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538

Tel: 1-800-462-5980

SALVATION - (Scenes from the Life of St. Francis)
Author: Valerie Martin
Published by: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Author: Adrian House Published by Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ

THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Green, Julian. (Harper & Roe, San Francisco 1983)

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Engelbert, Omer. Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, IL 1965

FRANCIS:
THE JOURNEY AND THE DREAM
Bodo, Murray. St. Anthony Messenger Press, Cinncinati, 1972

THE PERFECT JOY OF ST. FRANCIS
Timmermans, Felix. Image Books, Garden City, 1955

BETWEEN A ROCK
AND A HEART PLACE
Franciscan T.O.R. Poetry Wilson, T.O.R. Didacus, Bro. Scripta Humaistica Press, 1987

FRANCIS AND CLARE
Regis J. Armstrong & Ignatius Brady The complete works, The Classics of Western Spirituality (New York: Paulist, 1982)

CLARE OF ASSISI
Marco Bartoli - trans. Frances Teresa, OSC Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1993

SAINT FRANCIS
A MODEL OF HUMAN LIBERATION
Leonardo Boff - trans. John W. Dierckmeier New York: Crossroad, 1984

THE FIRST FRANCISCAN WOMEN:
CLARE OF ASSISI AND HER FORM OF LIFE
Margaret Carney, OSF Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1993

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
G.K Chesterton Garden City: Doubleday, 1957

FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Arnaldo Fortini - trans. Helen Moak Crossroad, 1981

THE FRANCIS BOOK
Roy M. Glasnick New York: Collier Macmillan, 1980

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
WRITINGS AND EARLY BIOGRAPHIES
English Omnibus of the sources for the life of St. Francis Marion A. Habig Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1973

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI: A Biography
Johannes Jorgensen - trans. T. O'Connor Sloane Garden City: Doubleday, 1955

SAINT FRANCIS
Nikos Kazantzakis - trans. P.A. Bien New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962

A HISTORY OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDER
FROM THE ORIGENS TO THE YEAR 1517
John Moorman Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968

THE FRANCISCAN SISTERS
Raffele Pazzelli, TOR - trans. Aiden Mullaney, TOR
Stubenville: Franciscan University Press, 1993
St. Francis and the Third Order: The Pre-Franciscan and Franciscan Penitential movement.
Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1982

CLARE OF ASSISI:
A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY
Ingrid J. Peterson, OSF
Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1993

THE FRANCISCANS
William J. Short, OFM
Wilmington, DE , Michael Glazier, 1989

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI AND NATURE
Tradition and innovation in Western Christian
Attitudes toward the Environment.
New Your: Oxford UP, 1988

ST. FRANCIS AND THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD
Joseph Nangle, OFM, Marie Dennis, Cynthia More-Lobeta,
Stuart Taylor
Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 10545

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI:
WRITINGS FOR A GOSPEL LIFE
Regis J. Armstrong, OFM, Cap.
Crossroad Publishing Co. New York, NY.

THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS
Various editions