Biographies: Two Who Now Go Hand-in-Hand Through History
Kathleen Brady has the dogged devotion a biographer needs to understand her subjects, and to show we cannot truly understand Francis without Clare and vice versa.
‘Francis and Clare: The Struggles of the Saints of Assisi’
By Kathleen Brady
Lodwin Press, 402 pages
The centuries shift our values and our interests, and the lives of saints take on new meanings. So it is with St. Francis, who now cannot go forward in a biography without Lady Clare, who chose to renounce her privileges and a family attempting to force her into an unwanted marriage in order to follow an itinerant merchant’s son, Francis Bernadone.
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