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...Francis of Assisi sent a group of his Friars Minor to the Holy Land in 1217. When the Crusaders left Palestine, the Franciscans stayed behind, to guard the Christian shrines. In 1342 Pope Clement VI confirmed them as official guardians of the Holy Places on behalf of the Roman Catholic world.† Last week they sent out a call for help...
Miracles were being reported all over Italy. Despite discouragement by Church authorities, 60,000 pilgrims poured into Assisi to be cured by the "breathing" Madonna atop the cathedral. Communists, scenting propaganda, countered with reports of another miracle: a statue of Garibaldi had dismounted from its horse, smoked a cigar and inquired about Vatican scandals. In Rome, the weather was fitful. Said one overcoated man: "It seems warm when the sun is up, but as soon as you walk into the shade the cold air catches you like a knife...
...adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...
...burst the bubble of Father Lombardi"-they often find themselves unable to speak; sometimes they are moved even to renounce their political faith. And Italians who have remained cynically on the political sidelines are stirred by this unpretentious priest as no one has stirred them since Saint Francis of Assisi...
Saint Francis of Assisi, "the Saint of Love," changed "the stern Christian doctrine of the Middle Ages . . . into a message of good cheer." Love was not only "the essence of Francis' life," it was the only path he could conceive of toward wisdom, action, beauty, human brotherhood, and the bridge between...