Attribuée à Francis of Assisi
«Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon…»
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Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Francis of Assisi
Published anonymously in Paris in December 1912 (La Clochette) and attributed to Francis from 1927. It appears in no manuscript or medieval source. See the work 'Peace Prayer'.
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Paroles vérifiées de Francis of Assisi
«Most High, all-powerful, good Lord, yours are the praises, the glory and the honour and all blessing.»
Cántico de las criaturas, v. 1 (Asís, Biblioteca del Sacro Convento, cód. 338)
«Praised be you, my Lord, through our Sister bodily Death, from whom no living man can escape.»
Cántico de las criaturas, estrofa de la muerte (1226)
«The Lord gave me, Brother Francis, thus to begin doing penance: for when I was in sins, it seemed too bitter for me to see lepers. And the Lord himself led me among them and I showed mercy to them.»
Testamento 1–2