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Christine Perrin's "Reading Chesterton's St. Francis"

Sean Johnson
Jan 30, 2025
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Christine Perrin – Classical Academic Press

“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate and illuminate God becomes one for whom God illustrates and illuminates all things.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

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