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Chalippe Candide Chalippe
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Mediatrix Press
Published
August 2019
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Author
Chalippe Candide Chalippe
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Mediatrix Press
Published
August 2019
£29.35
Save 16%
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 3 days
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi
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St. Francis de Sales said, that while many saints should be imitated, some of the saints are to be admired more than imitated. The life of St. Francis gives us some of both. On the one hand, his extraordinary love of God, his humility, his penance, his charity, his prudence and his detachment from and loathing for the world, are all virtues that every Christian should seek to emulate throughout his life. On the other hand, his discernment of spirits, his miracles, his extraordinary fasting and mortification of his body, his ecstasies and the stigmata are all things God performed in St. Francis for our wonderment, to give glory to Him for what He brought about in his servant. We have provided a spiritual classic, Fr. Candide Challipe's Life of St. Francis, translated by the Oratorians of London into English. The value of Challipe's narrative, having compiled all of the sources available at the time of his writing (1700's) is that he balances the narrative between the two different elements which made Francis one of the greatest saints in the history of the Church.
Challipe's work is not only a spiritual tour de force, but is also a great work of theology, as he unfolds the life of St. Francis with respect to the subsequent theology of the Church through St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas, The Council of Trent and St. Robert Bellarmine. He quotes frequently not only from the Franciscan sources, but also from the Holy Scripture, the Fathers, and the great Theologians of the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
The important feature of the Mediatrix press edition is that in reprinting Chalippe's text, we have broken the work into chapters to make the work readable for modern audiences, while at the same time leaving it unabridged. It also contains works of art from the life of St. Francis cycle attributed to Giotto in Assisi.
Author
Chalippe Candide Chalippe
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Mediatrix Press
Published
August 2019
Weight
827g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 39 mm
ISBN
9781953746108
ISBN-10
1953746101
Eden Code
5307638
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Author/Creator: Chalippe Candide Chalippe
ISBN: 9781953746108
Publisher: Mediatrix Press
Release Date: August 2019
Weight: 827g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 39 mm
Eden Code: 5307638