On September 26, Franciscans remember the martyr St. Damian, patron of the small church in Assisi so central in Franciscan history, but we also celebrate St. Elzéar of Sabran (1285-1323) and his wife, Blessed Delphine of Glandèves (1284-1358), committed Secular Franciscans.
On September 26, Franciscans remember the martyr St. Damian, patron of the small church in Assisi so central in Franciscan history, but we also celebrate St. Elzéar of Sabran (1285-1323) and his wife, Blessed Delphine of Glandèves (1284-1358), committed Secular Franciscans.
Franciscans celebrate the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis on September 17. We have been gifted with a very insightful treatment of this event by friar historian Michael F. Cusato in his new study: Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and Companions (London: Reaktion Books, 2023).
This book presents four different dimensions of Franciscan practices around material possessions, with six reflections per topic.
Dr. Daniel Horan, OFM offered this inspiring message at the 2023 Re-Imagining the World: Pope Francis and Saint Francis conference, hosted by the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego.
This presentation by Dr. William Short, OFM kickstarted the 2023 Re-Imagining the World: Saint Francis and Pope Francis conference, hosted by the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego.
This course will examine active spiritual movements of the 12th and 13th centuries that preceded and perhaps prefigured the Franciscan movement.
This course explores the Franciscan tradition of this interdependent practice of care, which, at its heart, involves honest presence with one another and with oneself.
This course will examine the full range of those texts, some 30 in all, from the saint’s autographs (those that survive in his own handwriting) to fragments of his “lost” writings contained in the writings of Clare of Assisi and others.
