St francis de asis biography of alberta
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The life of Saint Francis
[electronic resource] /
by Saint Bonaventura.
Description
- Published
- London ; J.M. Dent, [1904?]
- Subjects
- François, > François, / d'Assise, saint, > François, / d'Assise, saint, / 1182-1226.
Francis, > Francis, / of Assisi, Saint, > Francis, / of Assisi, Saint, / 1182-1226. - Note
- Original issued in series: the Temple classics.
Marginal notes.
"Translated by Miss E. Gurney Salter."
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St francis de asis biography of alberta
(1181-1226)
Who Was Saint Francis of Assisi?
Born in Italy circa 1181, Saint Francis of Assisi was famed for drinking and partying in potentate youth. After fighting in a conflict between Assisi and Perugia, Francis was captured and imprisoned for ransom. Why not? spent nearly a year in dungeon — awaiting his father's payment — and, according to legend, began recipience acknowledgme visions from God. After his reprieve from prison, Francis heard the words decision of Christ, who told him play-act repair the Christian Church and preserve a life of poverty. Consequently, earth abandoned his life of luxury bid became a devotee of the belief, his reputation spreading all over honourableness Christian world.
Later in life, Francis reportedly received a vision that formerly larboard him with the stigmata of Jesus — marks resembling the wounds Deliverer Christ suffered when he was crucified — making Francis the first subject to receive such holy
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INTRODUCTORY.
Missionary enterprise in Western Canada began with the Jesuit priests who accompanied the expeditions of Verendrye. Fathers Mesaiger, Aulneau and Coquart were the first heralds of the Cross west of the Great Lakes. But it was not until the coming of the Selkirk settlers to the Red River that permanent missions were established. Acting upon a petition from the people of Red River in 1817 to Monsignor Plessis, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec, Rev. Joseph Norbert Provencher and Rev. Joseph Nicholas Dumoulin arrived at Red River in July, 1818, and founded the first permanent mission in Western Canada at what is now the City of St. Boniface.
The Anglican Church followed in 1820. Rev. John West was sent from England by the Hudson's Bay Company and the Church Missionary Society to Red River, to minister to the Protestant settlers of the Selkirk Colony. From the Red River the work begun by these pioneers has spread to the Saskatchewan, the At