Brother Francis and the Chorus of All Things
In the autumn of 1225, nearly blind and wracked with pain, Francis of Assisi lay in a small hut beside the chapel of San Damiano....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 148.
In the autumn of 1225, nearly blind and wracked with pain, Francis of Assisi lay in a small hut beside the chapel of San Damiano. His eyes, burned by years of desert sun and weeping prayer, could barely distinguish light from shadow. Yet it was there, in that unlikely place of suffering, that he composed what many consider the first great poem in the Italian language — the Canticle of the Sun.…
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