How Long to Read The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by St Francis of Assisi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Alongside St. Ignatius, who founded the Jesuits, St. Francis of Assisi is widely regarded as one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic Church due to his work establishing religious Orders that have done an incalculable amount of good and service for societies. Like St. Ignatius, St. Francis also got his start as a soldier who experienced a vision that put him on a more divine path. St. Francis eventually became a pillar of the Church, both living in poverty to assist those in greatest need and in establishing the Franciscan Order, the Order of Poor Clares, an enclosed order for women, and the Third Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance. Near the end of his life, he became the first person recorded in history to bear the stigmata, the Passion wounds that Christ suffered in crucifixion, which only added to his ultimate aura and legacy. "To say that the writings of St. Francis reflect his personality and his spirit is but another way of saying that they are at once formidably mystic and exquisitely human; that they combine great elevation of thought with much picturesqueness of expression. This twofold element, which found its development later on in the prose of mystics like St. Bonaventure and in the verse of poets like Jacopone da Todi, and which has ever been a marked characteristic of Franciscan ascetic literature, leads back to the writings of the Founder as to the humble upper waters of a mighty stream. St. Francis had the soul of an ascetic and the heart of a poet. His unbounded faith had an almost lyric sweetness about it; his deep sense of the spiritual is often clothed with the character of romance. This intimate union of the supernatural and the natural is nowhere more strikingly manifested than in the writings of St. Francis."

How long is The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi?

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by St Francis of Assisi is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi?

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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