“Two centuries after St. Francis of Assisi, his followers labored for a revival of religion contemporaneously with the revival of learning known as the Renaissance. A leading promoter of it was the saintly preacher of whom this volume is a memorial. An account of the moral and civic anarchy of the time forms the historical setting of the story of the revivalist’s missionary life, the popular enthusiasm he kindled, his trials with ecclesiastical opponents, his sermons, and, finally, of the two orders of the Franciscan brotherhood, from the less to the more rigorous of which he went over.”—Outlook.
“Admirable life.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 201. O. ’06. 90w. |
“Two temptations seem to beset the biographers of a saint: one is to idealize the subject, ... and the other is to attribute to Divine intervention every extraordinary event associated in any way with his career. The volume before us, because it contains but few evidences of these imperfections, merits special commendation.”
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 838. S. ’07. 260w. |
“By the time M. Thureau-Dangin’s French has been transmuted into the Baroness’s English, the sayings of the saint are often barely recognizable.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 750w. |
“The volume which tells of his life will be chiefly interesting to students and to the devout,”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 230w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 130w. |