Saint Francis of Assisi is a Catholic deacon of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, preacher, the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy.
This work by Father Candide Chalippe was originally published in Parish in 1727. As it is pointed out in the introductory, this is a well written and reliable book, as well as an instructive, elevating and inspiring one. “The facts and legends mentioned are drawn from the oldest and most reliable sources. The abundance of incidents and anecdotes not to be found elsewhere make the volume eminently interesting, while the reflexions and applications which the author now and then interweaves with the narrative are so replete with practical hints on spiritual life, that they will undoubtedly produce the best spiritual results in the reader”.