Saint Francis of Assisi

It has been said that G. K. Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922 because "only the Roman Church could have produced a Saint Francis of Assisi". Published shortly after his conversion, Saint Francis of Assisi certainly affirms Chesterton's preternatural appreciation of the great saint and his teachings. With delightful informality, Chesterton depicts a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the world, but renounced them to embrace the most austere poverty. Enlightening and entertaining, this book captures Saint Francis in all his eccentricities and contradictions and yet reveals the very essence of his intellectual and spiritual grounding in the Church.