Main sources for the life of Saint Francis
Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi.
Friar Elias, Epistola Encyclica de Transitu Sancti Francisci, 1226.
Pope Gregory IX, Bulla "Mira circa nos" for the canonization of St. Francis, 19 July 1228.
Friar Tommaso da Celano: Vita Prima Sancti Francisci, 1228; Vita Secunda Sancti Francisci, 1246 1247; Tractatus de Miraculis Sancti Francisci, 1252 1253.
Friar Julian of Speyer, Vita Sancti Francisci, 1232 1239.
St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Legenda Maior Sancti Francisci, 1260 1263.
Ugolino da Montegiorgio, Actus Beati Francisci et sociorum eius, 1327 1342.
Fioretti di San Francesco, the "Little Flowers of St. Francis", end of the 14th century: an anonymous Italian version of the Actus; the most popular of the sources, but very late and therefore not the best authority by any means.
Main writings by St. Francis
Canticum Fratris Solis, the Canticle to Brother Sun.
Prayer before the Crucifix, 1205 (extant in the original Umbrian dialect as well as in a contemporary Latin translation).
Regula non bullata, the Earlier Rule, 1221.
Regula bullata, the Later Rule, 1223.
Testament, 1226.
Admonitions.
Order of the Holy Sepulchre, lay organization related to Franciscan hospitality in the Holy Land.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), a film by Franco Zeffirelli
Prayer of Saint Francis, a prayer widely attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, although in fact there is no record of it prior to 1912.
Clare of Assisi
Saint Juniper, one of Francis' original followers.
Saint David
University of Saint Francis (Illinois), a school founded in the tradition of St. Francis of Assisi.
Saint Francis University (Pennsylvania)
List of people on stamps of Ireland
Saint Margaret of Cortona
Saint-Franηois d'Assise, an opera by Olivier Messiaen
Society of Saint Francis
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950), a film by Roberto Rossellini
Francesco (1990), a film by Liliana Cavani, somewhat slow moving film which follows Francis of Assisi's evolution from rich man's son to religious humanitarian and eventually to full-fledged self-tortured saint. This movie was inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel Peter Camenzind. St. Francis is played by Mickey Rourke, and the woman who later became Saint Clare, is played by Helena Bonham Carter
Flowers for St Francis (2005), a book by Raj Arumugam (see
www.ttsworld.com.au)
Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi a book by Donald Spoto (2002)
Christian mystics
Siena College
Saint-Franηois (places called for Francis of Assisi in French-speaking countries)
Saint Francis et His Four Ladies (1970) a book by Joan Mowat Erikson
Brother, Sister (2006), third full-length album by indie rock band mewithoutYou, featuring the song The Sun and Moon
