Saint Francis of Assisi normal and winner of the Grand

and winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1936 (for his novel A Diary of a Country Priest)

but it shall accomplish that which I purpose

and gave her “as great a right to be merry as any lady in the world

” These words from the Imitation of Christ might well have been the motto of Thérèse of the Child Jesus

Saint Francis of Assisi normal and winner of the GrandBy Johannes Jrgensen At the beginning of his classic biography of le jongleur de dieu, G. K. Chesterton sets forth three ways in which a sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written. First, the author may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues; second, he may go to the opposite extreme, andbe defiantly devotional; and thirdby the ordinary routehe may try to use what is