The Enthusiast: How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started | The Untold Story of Elias of Cortona
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Popular historian and award-winning author Jon M. Sweeney relates the untold story of St. Francis’s friendship with Elias of Cortona, the man who helped him build the Franciscan movement. Sweeney uses the complexities of their relationship in a gripping narrative of how their efforts changed the world and how Elias’s enthusiasm betrayed the ideals of his friend.
Few biographies of St. Francis have examined his complicated relationship with close friend Elias of Cortona. In The Enthusiast, award-winning author and historian Jon M. Sweeney delves into this little-known partnership that defined and then almost destroyed Francis’s ideals.
Blending history and biography, Sweeney reveals how Francis and Elias rebuilt churches, aided lepers, and entertained as “God’s troubadours” to the delight of everyday people who had grown tired of a remote and tumultuous Church. At the height of their spiritual renaissance, however, Elias became “the devil” to many of the other friars; they believed him to be a traitor to their ideals. After Francis’s premature death, the movement fractured. Scorned by most of the Franciscan leadership, Elias followed a path that would leave him a lonely, broken man. Sweeney shows how Elias’s undoing was rooted in his attempts to honor his old friend.
The Enthusiast was the winner of a 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award: History (Third Place).
Details
- Publisher
- Ave Maria Press
- Author
- Jon M. Sweeney
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Apr 8, 2016
- ISBN-13
- 9781594716010
- ISBN-10
- 1594716013
- Pages
- 320
- Carton quantity
- 26 copies
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