The Road to DamiettaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 M10 25 - 318 pages The Newbury Award-winning author delivers “what may be his finest novel” in this young adult narrative of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fifth Crusade (Publishers Weekly). Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers a fascinating new perspective on the man who became Saint Francis of Assisi: the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Thirteen-year-old Ricca di Montanaro, who secretly loves the young Francis, watches in awe as he disavows his rich father and declares himself a servant of Christ. Following him on his journey, Ricca recounts Francis’s attempt to bring peace amidst the bloodshed of the Fifth Crusade. “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace,” he said. “Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.” And so he set off on the road to Damietta… |
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... Assisi, watches as he turns from his life of wealth and privilege, takes vows of poverty, and devotes himself to serving God by helping all those around him. 1. Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226—Juvenile fiction. [1. Francis, of Assisi ...
... Assisi, watches as he turns from his life of wealth and privilege, takes vows of poverty, and devotes himself to serving God by helping all those around him. 1. Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226—Juvenile fiction. [1. Francis, of Assisi ...
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... Assisi, Fortini spent thirty years on this biography. It first appeared in four volumes. It is now in one volume, brilliantly translated by Helen Moak, with valuable notes of her own and a bibliography of some seven hundred and fifty ...
... Assisi, Fortini spent thirty years on this biography. It first appeared in four volumes. It is now in one volume, brilliantly translated by Helen Moak, with valuable notes of her own and a bibliography of some seven hundred and fifty ...
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... burn and destroy, maim and kill, during the next year. Yet in that brief time what these rapacious men could do! We were moving along the road from our farm at the foot of Monte Rosso to our home in Assisi. Usually we spent / 1.
... burn and destroy, maim and kill, during the next year. Yet in that brief time what these rapacious men could do! We were moving along the road from our farm at the foot of Monte Rosso to our home in Assisi. Usually we spent / 1.
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Scott O'Dell. Monte Rosso to our home in Assisi. Usually we spent part of the winter and the whole spring in the country, but my father was the podestd, theleader, and amember of thecommune that governed Assisi, and lately, within the ...
Scott O'Dell. Monte Rosso to our home in Assisi. Usually we spent part of the winter and the whole spring in the country, but my father was the podestd, theleader, and amember of thecommune that governed Assisi, and lately, within the ...
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... Assisi, my father being the first. "Have you seen the leper?" he asked my father. "I smell him but I do not see him anywhere." "There he is," my father said, pointing. "We chased him off the road. Proceed in safety; he'll not disturb ...
... Assisi, my father being the first. "Have you seen the leper?" he asked my father. "I smell him but I do not see him anywhere." "There he is," my father said, pointing. "We chased him off the road. Proceed in safety; he'll not disturb ...
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