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In this unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys, Linda Bird Francke tells the fascinating story of Saint Francis of Assisi by following his path to sainthood. Francke and her husband, Harvey Loomis, used as their guidebooks medieval texts, including the first official biography of the saint, completed in 1229, just three years after he died. From Assisi, a small Umbrian town that now draws two million visitors a year, Saint Francis crisscrossed Italy for twenty years. And so too does the author travel through the "green heart" of Italy to such hill towns and cities as Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, and Rome and to many mountaintop Franciscan sanctuaries. Along the way, Francke movingly depicts the many miracles Francis performed and draws us into the splendid beauty of the landscape that inspired the saint's love for nature and regard for all living things.
On the Road with Saint Francis embraces the spirit and person of its legendary subject and invites the reader to marvel at his spiritual intensity and follow in his footsteps through the timeless beauty of Italy.

They say....

"Linda Bird Francke's Francis is refreshingly real, as are her descriptions of the places in which the man lived, preached, and set up monasteries." Los Angeles Times

"Compelling...an inviting portrait of both the man and the journey." Booklist

"[Linda Bird Francke] unfolds this incredible life...an existence somehow modern yet cloaked in superstition and legend...This travelogue will keep you talking and thinking for weeks." The Washington Post Book World