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...ancient lands of Tuscany and Umbria they captured Assisi, where St. Francis lived and preached. British Iancers. now motorized, fought for two days on the outskirts of Perugia, then moved into the almost undamaged city of Gothic buildings and Umbrian paintings...
This book is called a novel about St. Francis of Assisi, but it is not so much a religious tale as a picture of the first two decades of the 13th Century. It is an historical tapestry into which is woven the story of how Francis, by his fabulous simplicity, got what he wanted both from the Pope in Rome and the infidel Sultan of Egypt, of how a tough and worldly French knight became King of Jerusalem against his will, of how thousands of the children of Christendom strangely vanished from their homes forever (on the Children...
...three-hour ceremonial, a tiny reliquary (½ by 1½ by 2½ in.) was sealed into the new high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan last Saturday. In the reliquary were bone fragments of each of the twelve Apostles, of St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Rose of Lima (the first American saint) and three Jesuit saints martyred by the Iroquois in 1649. They came straight from Rome, where a special department of the Vatican authenticates relics of the saints and sends them with proper attestation wherever new altars are needed...
...saint wore; third class, anything the saint used or touched. No Roman Catholic altar-not even a portable altar can be consecrated unless it contains at least one piece of the body of a martyred saint. For this purpose a first-class relic of even St. Francis of Assisi would not suffice, since he was not put to death for his faith. This rule points back to the days of the early persecutions, when the Christians celebrated Mass in the catacombs at graves of their martyred brethren...
Poet Noyes's world (No Other Man) is ended at one stroke by a death ray. Only survivors are Hero Mark. Heroine Evelyn (they were submerged in a submarine and a diving bell respectively when the ray struck); some citizens of Assisi, Italy; several herds of contented cows. Author Noyes does not explain how the citizens of Assisi survived or who milks the cows twice daily on a depopulated planet...