Virgo Ecclesia Facta

Download or read book Virgo Ecclesia Facta written by Johannes Schneider and published by Academy of the Immaculate. This book was released on 2004 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth scholarly study of the presence of Mary in the vocation, spirituality, thought and work of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. Point of departure for this study is the Crucifix of San Damiano and the Office of the Passion composed by St. Francis in the framework of his famous Marian antiphon. Thoroughly documented, with exhaustive bibliography, this study shows how totally Marian St. Francis is and how Marian he intended his Order and movement to be in order to ?repair the Church?. Praised by Pope John Paul II as the best mariological study published in 1998. PROD ID: AIB-VEC016, 466 pp, sewn softcover.