| A Capuchin Chronicle Contributor(s): Da Siena, Fra Ruffino (Author), Da Colpetrazzo, Fra Bernadino (Author) |
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ISBN: 1953746403 ISBN-13: 9781953746405 Publisher: Mediatrix Press OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5" W x 8" (0.53 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Capuchin Chronicle is a translation of a 16th century account of the first Capuchin Franciscans: their trials, tribulations and holiness as they went on to become a great religious order in the Church. The Chronicle, though anonymous, is attributed to Fra Ruffino da Siena, and begins with a review of previous reforms, laying the ground for the turbulent period of the 1530s and the struggle with the regular Franciscans to establish their first houses. Students of the discalced Carmelite reform will see here similar attitudes and obstacles to overcome to establish reform. This chronicle while near contemporary and a great source for information on the order, is also a spiritual treatise of first rank, on the virtues which the men of that age felt were necessary to not only wear the habit of St. Francis, but truly embrace the spirit of their founder. This should be considered as a quintessential Franciscan work. |