Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography
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Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography is a arts podcast hosted by Johannes Jorgensen. It has 33 episodes, with the latest published July 2011.
Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day, which included fighting as a soldier. In 1205, while away at war, he experienced a vision that beckoned him return to Assisi, where he soon lost his taste for the worldly life and began to live a life of evangelical poverty in imitation of Jesus Christ. He embarked upon a pilgrimage to Rome, where he begged for alms alongside the poor at St. Peter's Basilica. Upon his return to Assisi, be began to preach in the town square and soon acquired a curious following which blossomed into a worldwide religious order. The Franciscans sparked a spiritual revival that enlightened the Dark Ages and that continues even into our day.Johannes Jorgensen (1866–1956) is best known outside his native Denmark for his popular biography of St. Francis of Assisi, which he wrote in 1907. As a student in Copenhagen, he searched in vain for truth in various secular
arts ·en ·33 episodes
00 – Author's Preface
01 – Bk. I, Chap. 1, The Convalescent
02 – Bk. I, Chap. 2, Infancy and Youth
03 – Bk. I, Chap. 3, History of the Epoch
04 – Bk. I, Chap. 4, Francis Becomes a Soldier
05 – Bk. I, Chap. 5, The Conversion
06 – Bk. I, Chap. 6, The Message in San Damiano
07 – Bk. I, Chap. 7, The Abandonment of His Home and Father
08 - Bk. II, Chap. 1, The First Disciples
09 - Bk. II, Chap. 2, The Foundations of the Order
10 - Bk. II, Chap. 3, Rivo Torto
11 - Bk. II, Chap. 4, Portiuncula and the Early Disciples
12 - Bk. II, Chap. 5, Saint Clara and San Damiano
13 - Bk. III, Chap. 1, The Sermon to the Birds
14 - Bk. III, Chap. 2, Missionary Journeys
15 - Bk. III, Chap. 3, The Portiuncula Indulgence
16 - Bk. III, Chap. 4, Chapters and Provinces
17 - Bk. III, Chap. 5, Cardinal Hugolin
18 - Bk. III, Chap. 6, The Missionaries
19 - Bk. III, Chap. 7, The Foreign Missions and the Chapter of Mats
20 - Bk. III, Chap. 8, Rules and Admonitions
21 - Bk. III, Chap. 9, Saint Francis and Learning
22 - Bk. III, Chap. 10, The Learned Franciscans and the Third Order
23 - Bk. III, Chap. 11, Elias of Cortona and the Final Rule
24 - Bk. III, Chap. 12, The Last Visit to Rome and the Crib at Greccio
25 - Bk. IV, Chap. 1, The Writer
26 - Bk. IV, Chap. 2, The Spiritual Life
27 - Bk. IV, Chap. 3, The True Disciple
28 - Bk. IV, Chap. 4, La Verna and the Stigmata
29 - Bk. IV, Chap. 5, The Farewell to the Brethren
30 - Bk. IV, Chap. 6, Francis, the Lover of Nature
31 - Bk. IV, Chap. 7, Francis' Last Testament, Illness and Death
32 - Bk. IV, Chap. 8, The End
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