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Life of St. Francis of Assisi

CHAPTER XIII
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ST.

DOMINIC AND ST.

FRANCIS The Egyptian Mission.

Summer 1218-Autumn 1220 Art and poetry have done well in inseparably associating St.Dominic and St.Francis; the glory of the first is only a reflection of that of the second, and it is in placing them side by side that we succeed best in understanding the genius of the Poverello.

If Francis is the man of inspiration, Dominic is that of obedience to orders; one may say that his life was passed on the road to Rome, whither he continually went to ask for instructions.


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