Background of this site

1. A Cybercourse as basis for this site
2. The Author of the texts and abbreviations used
3. Bibliography for further reading

1. The Initial Years
2. Francis' turning point
3. The first followers
4. Clare's turning point
5. Journeying for the Lord
6. The end of the earthly journey

1. Background
2. Complete list of writings
3. Rules, Testament and Admonitions
4. Letters
5. Prayers

1. Background
2. Letters
3. Testament, Rule, Blessing

1. List of the Main sources
2. Trilogy by Thomas of Celano and Major Life by St. Bonaventure
3. Legends of the Three Companions and of Perugia
4. The Mirror of Perfection, Fioretti and Sacrum Commercium

1. List of the Main sources
2. Sources between 1212 - 1219
3. Sources between 1220 -1238 and others
4. Sources between 1247 - 1263 and others

1. From St. Francis (1226) to the Generalate of St. Bonaventure (1257-1274)
2. The Franciscans in the Universities
3. From the death of St.Bonaventure (1274) to Michele da Cesena (1328)
4. The First Franciscan Missions
5. Conventualism and Observance (1328 - 1417)
6. From the end of the Great Schism (1417) to the division of the Order (1517)
7. The beginnings of reform within the Observance
8. The beginnings of the Capuchin reform (1525-1619)
9. Houses of Recollection
10. The Friars Minor Riformati
11. The Friars Minor Alcantarines or Discalced
12. The Friars Minor Recollects
13. The Union of the Friars Minor (1897)
14. The Order of Friars Minor from 1897 to the present
15. The Second Order
16. The Third Regular Order
17. The Secular Franciscan Order

1. Companions of St. Francis & St. Clare
2. Franciscan Theologians and Doctors of the Church
3. Franciscan Martyrs
4. Franciscan Reformers and Preachers
5. Franciscan Missionaries

1. Background
2. The Franciscan School of Paris
3. The Franciscan School of Oxford

1. Background
2. Francis' concept of missionary evangelisation
3. The evangelisation of the Americas

1. Assisi, the hometown of Francis and Clare
2. The birthplace of St. Francis
3. San Damiano, Rivotorto, Porziuncola
4. Carceri, Basilica of St. Francis, La Verna, Greccio, Fontecolombo