Academic study
Bonaventure, The Major Legend of Saint Francis
Legenda maior sancti Francisci
The official biography, organised as a spiritual itinerary towards configuration with Christ crucified, culminating in the stigmata. It served as the programme for the fresco cycle of the Upper Basilica at Assisi and fixed the saint's image for centuries.
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Authorship note
A biographical source, not a work by Francis. Commissioned from Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, minister general, by the chapter of Narbonne (1260) and approved at Pisa in 1263; the chapter of Paris in 1266 ordered the earlier legends destroyed. It is accompanied by a Minor Legend for liturgical use.
Editions and translations
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English
Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, The Tree of Life, The Life of St. Francis
Paulist Press, 1978
Translation: Ewert Cousins
ISBN 0809121212
Classics of Western Spirituality.
Español
Francis of Assisi
San Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época
The Conscious LibrarySan Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 2003
Translation: José Antonio Guerra (ed.)
ISBN 8479146273
Edición de conjunto (BAC 399; 1.ª ed. 1978, ISBN 8422008742). Contiene este escrito.
Other works by Francis of Assisi
- Canticle of the Creatures (Canticle of Brother Sun) · 1225
- Admonitions · 1220
- Testament · 1226
- Earlier Rule (Regula non bullata, 1221) · 1221
- Later Rule (Regula bullata, 1223) · 1223
- Rule for Hermitages · 1218
- Earlier Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance (First Letter to the Faithful) · 1215
- Later Admonition and Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance (Second Letter to the Faithful) · 1220
- Exhortation to the Clergy (Letter to the Clergy) · 1220
- Letters to the Custodians (first and second) · 1220
- Letter to the Rulers of the Peoples · 1220
- Letter to the Entire Order · 1225
- Letter to a Minister · 1221
- Letter to Brother Anthony of Padua · 1223
- Letter to Brother Leo · 1220
- The Praises of God and the Blessing for Brother Leo (Chartula) · 1224
- The Praises to Be Said at All the Hours · 1220
- Exhortation to the Praise of God · 1220
- The Office of the Passion · 1220
- The Prayer before the Crucifix · 1206
- A Salutation of the Blessed Virgin Mary · 1220
- A Salutation of the Virtues · 1220
- A Prayer Inspired by the Our Father · 1215
- Form of Life and Last Will for Saint Clare · 1212
- The Canticle of Exhortation to the Poor Ladies ('Audite, poverelle') · 1225
- The Testament Written in Siena · 1226
- Fragments of Another Rule · 1222
- True and Perfect Joy · 1220
- Blessing for Brother Bernard · 1226
- The Prayer 'Absorbeat' · 1305
- Letter to Lady Jacoba · 1226
- Peace Prayer ('Lord, make me an instrument of your peace') · 1912
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis · 1380
- Thomas of Celano, The Life of Saint Francis (First Life) · 1229
- Thomas of Celano, The Shorter Life of Saint Francis (Vita brevior) · 1235
- Thomas of Celano, The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul (Second Life) · 1247
- Thomas of Celano, The Treatise on the Miracles · 1252
- Julian of Speyer, The Life of Saint Francis · 1234
- The Anonymous of Perugia (The Beginning of the Order) · 1241
- The Legend of the Three Companions · 1246
- The Assisi Compilation · 1246
- The Mirror of Perfection · 1318
- Complete Writings (collected editions) · 1904
Sources
- Vauchez, André. François d'Assise. Entre histoire et mémoire. París: Fayard, 2009. Trad. ingl.: Francis of Assisi. The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
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