Saint Francis of Assisi

It can also take other forms of trying to create purity and beauty in the world, as, for example, the path of Saint Francis of Assisi, who rebuilt a church as part of his purification, or Hildegard of Bingen, who planted a garden so that God's nose might be engaged.

Dr. Jean Houston: Spirituality and the Meaning of Mysticism for Our Time 2010

The Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Laudes Creaturarum "Praise of the Creatures", is a religious song composed by Saint Francis of Assisi.

Giovanni Bellini and St Francis in the Desert 2009

It shows Saint Francis of Assisi the Cardinal's name-saint at the moment of receiving the signs of the Stigmata, the wounds left in Christ's body by the Crucifixion.

October 4: St. Francis of Assisi bls 2008

You recall her career as a series of lit boxes, face cards in a marked deck: Madonna as a street urchin, in spangles; Madonna as Marilyn, in satin; Madonna as a deflowered virgin, writhing onstage in a wedding dress; Madonna as Saint Francis of Assisi, covered in icons and weeping for fragile things; Madonna on the Cross, like Jesus, but better, because did Jesus ever come down from the Cross to sing a song?

Madonnarama! Cohen, Rich 2008

It shows Saint Francis of Assisi the Cardinal's name-saint at the moment of receiving the signs of the Stigmata, the wounds left in Christ's body by the Crucifixion.

Archive 2008-10-01 bls 2008

In 1933, she founded the Catholic Worker movement with the itinerant French illegal immigrant Peter Maurin, a sort of modern Holy Fool in the mode of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Anarcho-Catholicism: Dorothy Day's Day Has Come 2007

Today is the feast day for Saint Francis of Assisi.

St. Francis of Assisi Divers 2007

Proclaiming himself “somewhere between Howard Stern and Saint Francis of Assisi on the scale of morality,” Gibson also seems creepily preoccupied with evil, both apparently in the focus of his film and in his current situation.

Most People Just Go to Anger Management Training Or Get An Antidepressant Prescription : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004

Antonio and the founder of his Order, Saint Francis of Assisi, was very strong.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

Still Junipero Serra (as he was known by his own choice after an humble disciple of Saint Francis of Assisi, noted for his charity) was not dazzled by his brilliant mental gifts, and his thirsting desire to evangelize the heathen savage of the New World grew apace with his fame.

Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions Maria Antonia Field