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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 19, 2019
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The St. Francis of Assisi sculpture at the Humanics Sanctuary and Sculpture Park in Cumberland (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada.
Sculptor: Huynh Ba Trung, Tu Hung Da Nang, Vietnam
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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St. Francis preaches before al-Malik al-Kamil Naser ad-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Muhammad, fourth Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt. Window of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Teutopolis, IL.
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April7 2023
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
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St. Francis establishes the Third Order. Window of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Teutopolis, IL.
St. Francis adores the infant Jesus. Window of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Teutopolis, IL.
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
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2016 Simple Vows Capuchin Franciscan Province of St Augustine
"Br. Rigobel Azanwi" "Br. Steve Wright" "Br. Theo Simatupang"
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis is a famous prayer which first appeared around the year 1915 A.D., and which embodies the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi's simplicity and poverty. According to Father Kajetan Esser, OFM, the author of the critical edition of St. Francis's Writings, the Peace Prayer of St. Francis is most certainly not one of the writings of St. Francis. This prayer, according to Father Schulz, first appeared during the First World War. It was found written on the observe of a holy card of St. Francis, which was found in a Normal Almanac. The prayer bore no name; but in the English speaking world, on account of this holy card, it came to be called the Peace Prayer of St. Francis.
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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Per Wikipedia: "The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, commonly known as Saint Francis Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Santa Fe (NM). It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
The cathedral was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy between 1869 and 1886 on the site of an older adobe church, La Parroquia (built in 1714–1717). An older church on the same site, built in 1626, was destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. The new cathedral was built around La Parroquia, which was dismantled once the new construction was complete. A small chapel on the north side of the cathedral was kept from the old church.
Influenced by the French-born Archbishop Lamy and in dramatic contrast to the surrounding adobe structures, Saint Francis Cathedral was designed in the Romanesque Revival style.
As such, the cathedral features characteristic round arches separated by Corinthian columns and truncated square towers. The large rose window in front and those of the Twelve Apostles in the lateral nave windows were imported from Clermont-Ferrand in France. The towers were originally planned to be topped with dramatic 160-foot steeples, but due to lack of funds, these were never built. The left tower is a single row of bricks taller than the right tower.
The cathedral was built from yellow limestone blocks quarried near the present site of Lamy. A 2005 addition to the upper facade of the cathedral is a small, round window featuring a dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit. It is a stained glass replica of the translucent alabaster window designed in the 17th-century by the Italian artist Bernini for St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
The Cathedral of Saint Francis of Assisi was officially elevated to a basilica by Pope Benedict XVI on October 4, 2005, when it was named the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
The statue of St. Francis, the patron saint of the diocese, was installed on the left front of the Cathedral grounds (as shown above) during the 1967 renovations."
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(English translation follows the original Italian:)
O insensata cura de’ mortali,
quanto son difettivi silogismi
quei che ti fanno in basso batter l’ali!
Chi dietro a iura e chi ad amforismi
sen giva, e chi seguendo sacerdozio,
e chi regnar per forza o per sofismi,
e chi rubare e chi civil negozio,
chi nel diletto de la carne involto
s’affaticava e chi si dava a l’ozio,
quando, da tutte queste cose sciolto,
con Bëatrice m’era suso in cielo
cotanto glorïosamente accolto.
Poi che ciascuno fu tornato ne lo
punto del cerchio in che avanti s’era,
fermossi, come a candellier candelo.
E io senti’ dentro a quella lumera
che pria m’avea parlato, sorridendo
incominciar, faccendosi più mera:
«Così com’ io del suo raggio resplendo,
sì, riguardando ne la luce etterna,
li tuoi pensieri onde cagioni apprendo.
Tu dubbi, e hai voler che si ricerna
in sì aperta e ’n sì distesa lingua
lo dicer mio, ch’al tuo sentir si sterna,
ove dinanzi dissi: "U’ ben s’impingua",
e là u’ dissi: "Non nacque il secondo";
e qui è uopo che ben si distingua.
La provedenza, che governa il mondo
con quel consiglio nel quale ogne aspetto
creato è vinto pria che vada al fondo,
però che andasse ver’ lo suo diletto
la sposa di colui ch’ad alte grida
disposò lei col sangue benedetto,
in sé sicura e anche a lui più fida,
due principi ordinò in suo favore,
che quinci e quindi le fosser per guida.
L’un fu tutto serafico in ardore;
l’altro per sapïenza in terra fue
di cherubica luce uno splendore.
De l’un dirò, però che d’amendue
si dice l’un pregiando, qual ch’om prende,
perch’ ad un fine fur l’opere sue.
Intra Tupino e l’acqua che discende
del colle eletto dal beato Ubaldo,
fertile costa d’alto monte pende,
onde Perugia sente freddo e caldo
da Porta Sole; e di rietro le piange
per grave giogo Nocera con Gualdo.
Di questa costa, là dov’ ella frange
più sua rattezza, nacque al mondo un sole,
come fa questo talvolta di Gange.
Però chi d’esso loco fa parole,
non dica Ascesi, ché direbbe corto,
ma Orïente, se proprio dir vuole.
Non era ancor molto lontan da l’orto,
ch’el cominciò a far sentir la terra
de la sua gran virtute alcun conforto;
ché per tal donna, giovinetto, in guerra
del padre corse, a cui, come a la morte,
la porta del piacer nessun diserra;
e dinanzi a la sua spirital corte
et coram patre le si fece unito;
poscia di dì in dì l’amò più forte.
Questa, privata del primo marito,
millecent’ anni e più dispetta e scura
fino a costui si stette sanza invito;
né valse udir che la trovò sicura
con Amiclate, al suon de la sua voce,
colui ch’a tutto ’l mondo fé paura;
né valse esser costante né feroce,
sì che, dove Maria rimase giuso,
ella con Cristo pianse in su la croce.
Ma perch’ io non proceda troppo chiuso,
Francesco e Povertà per questi amanti
prendi oramai nel mio parlar diffuso.
La lor concordia e i lor lieti sembianti,
amore e maraviglia e dolce sguardo
facieno esser cagion di pensier santi;
tanto che ’l venerabile Bernardo
si scalzò prima, e dietro a tanta pace
corse e, correndo, li parve esser tardo.
Oh ignota ricchezza! oh ben ferace!
Scalzasi Egidio, scalzasi Silvestro
dietro a lo sposo, sì la sposa piace.
Indi sen va quel padre e quel maestro
con la sua donna e con quella famiglia
che già legava l’umile capestro.
Né li gravò viltà di cuor le ciglia
per esser fi’ di Pietro Bernardone,
né per parer dispetto a maraviglia;
ma regalmente sua dura intenzione
ad Innocenzio aperse, e da lui ebbe
primo sigillo a sua religïone.
Poi che la gente poverella crebbe
dietro a costui, la cui mirabil vita
meglio in gloria del ciel si canterebbe,
di seconda corona redimita
fu per Onorio da l’Etterno Spiro
la santa voglia d’esto archimandrita.
E poi che, per la sete del martiro,
ne la presenza del Soldan superba
predicò Cristo e li altri che ’l seguiro,
e per trovare a conversione acerba
troppo la gente e per non stare indarno,
redissi al frutto de l’italica erba,
nel crudo sasso intra Tevero e Arno
da Cristo prese l’ultimo sigillo,
che le sue membra due anni portarno.
Quando a colui ch’a tanto ben sortillo
piacque di trarlo suso a la mercede
ch’el meritò nel suo farsi pusillo,
a’ frati suoi, sì com’ a giuste rede,
raccomandò la donna sua più cara,
e comandò che l’amassero a fede;
e del suo grembo l’anima preclara
mover si volle, tornando al suo regno,
e al suo corpo non volle altra bara.
Pensa oramai qual fu colui che degno
collega fu a mantener la barca
di Pietro in alto mar per dritto segno;
e questo fu il nostro patrïarca;
per che qual segue lui, com’ el comanda,
discerner puoi che buone merce carca.
Ma ’l suo pecuglio di nova vivanda
è fatto ghiotto, sì ch’esser non puote
che per diversi salti non si spanda;
e quanto le sue pecore remote
e vagabunde più da esso vanno,
più tornano a l’ovil di latte vòte.
Ben son di quelle che temono ’l danno
e stringonsi al pastor; ma son sì poche,
che le cappe fornisce poco panno.
Or, se le mie parole non son fioche,
se la tua audïenza è stata attenta,
se ciò ch’è detto a la mente revoche,
in parte fia la tua voglia contenta,
perché vedrai la pianta onde si scheggia,
e vedra’ il corrègger che argomenta
"U’ ben s’impingua, se non si vaneggia"».
. . . . . . . . . .
("O Thou insensate care of mortal men,
How inconclusive are the syllogisms
That make thee beat thy wings in downward flight!
One after laws and one to aphorisms
Was going, and one following the priesthood,
And one to reign by force or sophistry,
And one in theft, and one in state affairs,
One in the pleasures of the flesh involved
Wearied himself, one gave himself to ease;
When I, from all these things emancipate,
With Beatrice above there in the Heavens
With such exceeding glory was received!
When each one had returned unto that point
Within the circle where it was before,
It stood as in a candlestick a candle;
And from within the effulgence which at first
Had spoken unto me, I heard begin
Smiling while it more luminous became:
"Even as I am kindled in its ray,
So, looking into the Eternal Light,
The occasion of thy thoughts I apprehend.
Thou doubtest, and wouldst have me to resift
In language so extended and so open
My speech, that to thy sense it may be plain,
Where just before I said, 'where well one fattens,'
And where I said, 'there never rose a second;'
And here 'tis needful we distinguish well.
The Providence, which governeth the world
With counsel, wherein all created vision
Is vanquished ere it reach unto the bottom,
(So that towards her own Beloved might go
The bride of Him who, uttering a loud cry,
Espoused her with his consecrated blood,
Self-confident and unto Him more faithful,)
Two Princes did ordain in her behoof,
Which on this side and that might be her guide.
The one was all seraphical in ardour;
The other by his wisdom upon earth
A splendour was of light cherubical.
One will I speak of, for of both is spoken
In praising one, whichever may be taken,
Because unto one end their labours were.
Between Tupino and the stream that falls
Down from the hill elect of blessed Ubald,
A fertile slope of lofty mountain hangs,
From which Perugia feels the cold and heat
Through Porta Sole, and behind it weep
Gualdo and Nocera their grievous yoke.
From out that slope, there where it breaketh most
Its steepness, rose upon the world a sun
As this one does sometimes from out the Ganges;
Therefore let him who speaketh of that place,
Say not Ascesi, for he would say little,
But Orient, if he properly would speak.
He was not yet far distant from his rising
Before he had begun to make the earth
Some comfort from his mighty virtue feel.
For he in youth his father's wrath incurred
For certain Dame, to whom, as unto death,
The gate of pleasure no one doth unlock;
And was before his spiritual court
'Et coram patre' unto her united;
Then day by day more fervently he loved her.
She, reft of her first husband, scorned, obscure,
One thousand and one hundred years and more,
Waited without a suitor till he came.
Naught it availed to hear, that with Amyclas
Found her unmoved at sounding of his voice
He who struck terror into all the world;
Naught it availed being constant and undaunted,
So that, when Mary still remained below,
She mounted up with Christ upon the cross.
But that too darkly I may not proceed,
Francis and Poverty for these two lovers
Take thou henceforward in my speech diffuse.
Their concord and their joyous semblances,
The love, the wonder, and the sweet regard,
They made to be the cause of holy thoughts;
So much so that the venerable Bernard
First bared his feet, and after so great peace
Ran, and, in running, thought himself too slow.
O wealth unknown! O veritable good!
Giles bares his feet, and bares his feet Sylvester
Behind the bridegroom, so doth please the bride!
Then goes his way that father and that master,
He and his Lady and that family
Which now was girding on the humble cord;
Nor cowardice of heart weighed down his brow
At being son of Peter Bernardone,
Nor for appearing marvellously scorned;
But regally his hard determination
To Innocent he opened, and from him
Received the primal seal upon his Order.
After the people mendicant increased
Behind this man, whose admirable life
Better in glory of the heavens were sung,
Incoronated with a second crown
Was through Honorius by the Eternal Spirit
The holy purpose of this Archimandrite.
And when he had, through thirst of martyrdom,
In the proud presence of the Sultan preached
Christ and the others who came after him,
And, finding for conversion too unripe
The folk, and not to tarry there in vain,
Returned to fruit of the Italic grass,
On the rude rock 'twixt Tiber and the Arno
From Christ did he receive the final seal,
Which during two whole years his members bore.
When He, who chose him unto so much good,
Was pleased to draw him up to the reward
That he had merited by being lowly,
Unto his friars, as to the rightful heirs,
His most dear Lady did he recommend,
And bade that they should love her faithfully;
And from her bosom the illustrious soul
Wished to depart, returning to its realm,
And for its body wished no other bier.
Think now what man was he, who was a fit
Companion over the high seas to keep
The bark of Peter to its proper bearings.
And this man was our Patriarch; hence whoever
Doth follow him as he commands can see
That he is laden with good merchandise.
But for new pasturage his flock has grown
So greedy, that it is impossible
They be not scattered over fields diverse;
And in proportion as his sheep remote
And vagabond go farther off from him,
More void of milk return they to the fold.
Verily some there are that fear a hurt,
And keep close to the shepherd; but so few,
That little cloth doth furnish forth their hoods.
Now if my utterance be not indistinct,
If thine own hearing hath attentive been,
If thou recall to mind what I have said,
In part contented shall thy wishes be;
For thou shalt see the plant that's chipped away,
And the rebuke that lieth in the words,
'Where well one fattens, if he strayeth not.'")
-- Dante, Paradiso XI
Taken while I was accompanying my wife to some garage sales. One of them was conducted by a woman who was a devout Catholic, and who, noting my interest in photography, invited me inside to take this picture. I asked her where she had acquired this statue, expecting the answer to be someplace such as Rome or Florence, but it was neither. She had picked it up many years before, in Wilmington, North Carolina!
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 19, 2019
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 19, 2019
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 19, 2019
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 25, 2016
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
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"May the Lord bless you and keep you! May the Lord show His face to you and be merciful to you! May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace! God bless you!"
- St. Francis of Assisi
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Parish of Our Lady of the Abandoned
Santa Ana, Manila
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 14, 2017
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panel painting with St Francis of Assisi, St Christopher and St Catherine of Siena
UNESCO World Heritage Site
for educational purpose only
please do not use without permission
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April 19, 2019
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From Wikipedia:
The Church of St. Francis of Assisi is a parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and is located at 135-139 West 31st Street, Manhattan, New York City. The parish is staffed by the Order of Friars Minor.
"Francis, the man of God, left his home behind,
abandoned his inheritance and became poor and penniless, but the Lord raised him up." – Introit for the feast of St Francis (4 October).
Statue from the retablo of the Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Antonio de Pereda
"St Francis of Asisi in the Portiuncula"
1664, oil on canvas, collection of the Museo del prado
Iglesia de san Jerónimo el Real, Madrid
IMG_3721
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
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The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto March 30, 2018
www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.
Toronto April7 2023
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