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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... sang the hymns and antiphons and jauntily celebrated Mass. I watched and listened, so enthralled by every word he uttered, every movement he made, that Clare, thinking I was asleep, kept nudging my arm. And after Mass ended and 20.
... sang the hymns and antiphons and jauntily celebrated Mass. I watched and listened, so enthralled by every word he uttered, every movement he made, that Clare, thinking I was asleep, kept nudging my arm. And after Mass ended and 20.
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Scott O'Dell. asleep, kept nudging my arm. And after Mass ended and Francis went tripping through the crowd, I followed him. Before we reached the door he had disappeared, and when I saw him again, outside on the cathedral steps, he had ...
Scott O'Dell. asleep, kept nudging my arm. And after Mass ended and Francis went tripping through the crowd, I followed him. Before we reached the door he had disappeared, and when I saw him again, outside on the cathedral steps, he had ...
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... arm of the barber-surgeon, the goldsmith's unicorn. Bernardone's shop was at the far end of the street, an unlikely place for a merchant dealing in expensive cloth. By placing trestles stacked with merchandise in front of his store from ...
... arm of the barber-surgeon, the goldsmith's unicorn. Bernardone's shop was at the far end of the street, an unlikely place for a merchant dealing in expensive cloth. By placing trestles stacked with merchandise in front of his store from ...
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... arm, he held it up to catch the sunlight. "Notice, if you will," he said, trying hard to be friendly, "the enchanted glow." I ran my hand over the silk. "Doesn't it remind you of a spring day," he said, "when the meadows are green and ...
... arm, he held it up to catch the sunlight. "Notice, if you will," he said, trying hard to be friendly, "the enchanted glow." I ran my hand over the silk. "Doesn't it remind you of a spring day," he said, "when the meadows are green and ...
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