THE LIFE OF
SAINT FRANCIS
OF ASSISI
Saint Bonaventure
Translated by
E. Gurney Salter
1904 by E.P. Dutton, New York, US.
This work is published for the greater Glory of Jesus Christ through His most
Holy Mother Mary and for the sanctification of the militant Church and her members.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE LIFE OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Chapter I
OF HIS MANNER OF LIFE IN THE SECULAR STATE
Chapter II
OF HIS PERFECT CONVERSION UNTO GOD, AND OF THE REPAIRING OF THE THREE CHURCHES
Chapter III
OF THE FOUNDING OF HIS RELIGION, AND SANCTION OF THE RULE
Chapter V
OF THE AUSTERITY OF HIS LIFE, AND OF HOW ALL CREATED THINGS AFFORDED HIM COMFORT
Chapter VI
OF HIS HUMILITY AND OBEDIENCE AND OF THE DIVINE CONDESCENSIONS SHEWN UNTO HIM AT WILL
Chapter VII
OF HIS LOVE FOR POVERTY, AND OF THE WONDROUS SUPPLYING OF HIS NEEDS
Chapter IX
OF HIS ARDENT LOVE, AND YEARNING FOR MARTYRDOM
Chapter X
OF HIS ZEAL AND EFFICACY IN PRAYER
Chapter XI
OF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCRIPTURES, AND OF HIS SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
Chapter XII
OF THE EFFICACY OF HIS PREACHING, AND OF HIS GIFT OF HEALING
Chapter XIII
OF THE SACRED STIGMATA
Chapter XIV
OF HIS SUFFERINGS AND DEATH
Chapter XV
OF HIS CANONISATION, AND THE TRANSLATION OF HIS BODY
CERTAIN MIRACLES WROUGHT AFTER HIS DEATH
I. First, concerning the powers of the sacred Stigmata.
II. Of the dead that were raised
III. Of them that he delivered from the peril of death
IV. Of them that were saved from shipwreck
V. Of them that he set free from bonds and imprisonment
VI. Of them that were delivered from the perils of childbirth
VII. Of the blind that received sight
VIII. Of them that were delivered from divers diseases
IX. Of them that did not observe his Feast, and that failed in reverence toward the Saint