March 2022 – Page 3 – Franciscan Voice

Dante holding his Divine Comedy flanked by Petrarch and Giotto. From a fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli (1452) located in the apse of the Church of San Francesco in Montefalco, Italy

Dante and the Franciscans – Part Ten

Beginning with the Florentine Friar Accursio Bonfantini, who in 1318 held a public reading of the Divine Comedy in the Cathedral of Florence for the city’s ruling lords, several Franciscans contributed to…

(Detail of painting by El Greco, 1580)

A Lenten Meditation

Our Seraphic Father, St. Francis, meditated a great deal on Our Lord’s Passion, as we read in the Franciscan Sources. In a previous post we read about the Holy Wounds…

Pray and Fast for Peace

Pope Francis asks people across the world to pray and fast today, Ash Wednesday, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. From friar Antonio Moualeu's 2021 Ash Wednesday reflection:Just as…

Dante and the Franciscans, Part Nine

According to tradition, Dante died on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in 1321. His body was carried by Ravenna’s most illustrious citizens “to the dwelling place of…