Saint Francis of Assisi normal and gave her “as great

and gave her “as great a right to be merry as any lady in the world

He had sat on his island away from the tides that had washed the world

Winter 1945: the Soviet army sweeps through the village of Suess­enberg

music and dancing

as stated in the Foreword

Saint Francis of Assisi normal and gave her “as greatBy Johannes Jrgensen At the beginning of his classic biography of le jongleur de dieu, G. K. Chesterton sets forth three ways in which a sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written. First, the author may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues; second, he may go to the opposite extreme, andbe defiantly devotional; and thirdby the ordinary routehe may try to use what is