FRANCIS OF ASSISI THE HOLY POET

" He is the saint who sings, the saint who laughs, the saint who kisses, who plays the violin by bowing a stick on his arm, a dancing angel. He is the saint who joyfully sings to nature, who joyfully loves the nature God has created. He does so not as a pantheist, but clearly in all things, as a gardner loves each flower in his garden for itself. Joy! Joy! It is nothing other than music. He hangs from God on a golden thread, swaying back and forth with life's joy - the troubador of God. He is inebriated with music and joyful love. Of all the saints, he is the poet; all his deeds are spontaneous rhymes, his words music! And even more than a poetic saint, one would prefer to call him a holy poet."

Heinrich Federer

Ins Land der Apfelsinen 1926

Into the Land of Pineapples, 1926

Saint Margaret of Cortona Region

Secular Franciscan Order USA

Covering the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and portions of West Virginia and Pennsylvania

Carolyn Protin, Minister