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Language: English | Category: History & Biography | Audio Book: external webside
Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope Francis, when he was elected as the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, on 13 March 2013. The biography of St. Francis may help one understand why the Pope chose St. Francis as his namesake. Chesterton begins:
“A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; … First, he 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, and decide, as it were, to be defiantly devotional. … Third, he may try to do what I have tried to do here; … I am here addressing the ordinary common man, sympathetic but sceptical, and I can only rather hazily hope that, by approaching the great saint’s story through what is evidently picturesque and popular about it, I may at least leave the reader understanding a little more than he did before of the consistency of a complete character; ….”
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Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - St. Thomas Aquinas -
Language: English, Spiritual - Format: ePub
Born in thirteenth century Italy, Aquinas wrote some of the most influential books of the medieval period. He revolutionized the way members of the Church thought as he reincorporated the ideas and philosophy of Aristotle back (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - El padre Brown. Relatos completos -
Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown, escrito a lo largo de más de veinte años, constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos, armado únicamente con su (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - Tutti i racconti gialli e tutte le indagini di Padre Brown -
Language: Italian, Novel - Format: ePub
Chi è Padre Brown? Secondo il suo inventore è «un prete che sembra ignaro di tutto e poi in realtà in fatto di delitti la sa più lunga dei criminali veri». Ciò che colpisce è innanzitutto il contrasto fra il suo aspetto di (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - The Wisdom of Father Brown -
Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - The Innocence of Father Brown -
Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable Roman Catholic priest. Father Brown's ability to uncover the truth behind (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - St. Francis of Assisi -
Language: English, History & Biography - Format: ePub
Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - Robert Louis Stevenson -
Language: Spanish, History & Biography - Format: iSilo
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Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - Ortodoxia -
Language: Spanish, Essay & Philosophy - Format: ePub, iSilo
Es éste, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los libros más representativos de G. K. Chesterton y probablemente su mejor ensayo. Una especie de autobiografía espiritual y vagabunda que completa lo iniciado en su libro Herejes, de 1905 (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - El hombre que fue Jueves -
Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: iSilo
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Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - El candor del Padre Brown -
Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: iSilo
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Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - The Man Who Was Thursday -
Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub, iSilo
In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - Father Brown Complete -
Language: English, Novel - Format: iSilo
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Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - The Man Who Knew Too Much -
Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his other work. He (More) |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - The Complete Works of Chesterton -
Language: English, Complete Works of - Format: ePub
One of the greatest writers of his time, G. K. Chesterton’s short stories, novels, poetry and essays demonstrate his unparalleled versatility in literature. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the complete FICTIONAL works, (More) |