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The Prayer of Saint Francis.(Review)(Brief Article)
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August 17, 2001|
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The Prayer of Saint Francis
By Leonardo Boff
Orbis, $12, 118 pp.
In the introductory pages, Boff provides a reasonable explanation of who wrote the prayer and under what conditions. What he has to say about the prayer's origins is completely new to me despite my having kept out an eye for solid information about it for some time. Twenty years ago, someone traced the prayer to Germany but that, in fact, does not seem to be the case. According to Boff, a French Catholic aristocrat, the Marquis de La Rochetulon, sent Pope Benedict XV a series of prayers for peace ...
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