RELUCTANT SAINT (ST FRANCIS)
Product Description
DVD. 60 min. Color.
"Don't make a saint of me," Francis of Assisi told a friend - even as his charisma and holiness were dazzling his contemporaries and generating a legend that has lasted almost a millennium. Reluctant Saint shows us a Saint Francis who transcends the image familiar to even the least religious among us: wealthy playboy, soldier, businessman, preacher, defender of the poor, mystic and - later - a guiding light to ecologists and animal rights activists.
Filmed on location in Umbria, Italy where St. Francis lived and worked, Reluctant Saint captures all the violence, color, and mystery of Francis' time - time like our own, full of crisis, craving for reform and for a deeper, simpler, more personal faith. Reluctant Saint offers new insights into a life that has engaged the hearts and minds of milllions over the centuries.
May we suggest other films about St. Francis: May we also suggest books about St Francis on our Lives of Saints page
Or these books about St Clare of Assisi
"Don't make a saint of me," Francis of Assisi told a friend - even as his charisma and holiness were dazzling his contemporaries and generating a legend that has lasted almost a millennium. Reluctant Saint shows us a Saint Francis who transcends the image familiar to even the least religious among us: wealthy playboy, soldier, businessman, preacher, defender of the poor, mystic and - later - a guiding light to ecologists and animal rights activists.
Filmed on location in Umbria, Italy where St. Francis lived and worked, Reluctant Saint captures all the violence, color, and mystery of Francis' time - time like our own, full of crisis, craving for reform and for a deeper, simpler, more personal faith. Reluctant Saint offers new insights into a life that has engaged the hearts and minds of milllions over the centuries.
May we suggest other films about St. Francis: May we also suggest books about St Francis on our Lives of Saints page
Or these books about St Clare of Assisi
