The Life Of St Francis Of Assisi With Supplemental Reading A Brief Life Of Christ 1st St Bonaventure by St. Bonaventure 9780895559142, 0895559145 instant download after payment.

The life of a Saint, written by a Saint, as the life of St. Paul of the
Cross written by his companion, the Blessed Strambi, speaks to the
heart with a vital power which no work of merely natural genius can
command. It has a twofold operation of the Spirit of God with it, both in the
subject and in the writer. Such is, in an eminent degree, the Life of St.
Francis, by St. Bonaventure—the life of the Seraphic Patriarch written by
the Seraphic Doctor. Among uninspired books there are few that breathe
more sensibly the love of God. There is a light and a sweetness about it
which is not of this world. The anecdote of St. Thomas visiting St.
Bonaventure—s cell, and fnding him in ecstasy, is too well known to need
recital. St. Bonaventure was then writing the Life of St. Francis, and it was
on these very pages that he was intent when St. Thomas drew back from the
door, saying, “Let us leave a Saint to work for a Saint.” It is in this same
spirit of love and reverence that we ought to read this book.