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- | ==== Saint Francis of Assisi ==== | ||
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- | When brother Francis wanted to say the name of Jesus, his biographer Thomas de Celano recounts, he would sometimes use the phrase 'child of Bethlehem' | ||
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- | In the time of Francis Europe was going through a massive commercial revolution. Business was challenging the state and the religious system. People were catholics but they just went through the motions. Somehow Francis succeeded to convert people who already thought they were christians, to sort-of renew their faith. He did not just succeed, he is generally recognized as the biggest religious genius Europe has ever produced. Also he successfully showed people the harmful side of business by demonstrating the virtue of poverty in such a manner that the locals viewed him with astonishment and laughter. How did he do it? He tapped into peoples direct experience by inventing the Christmas-stable, | ||
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- | [1]The view of brother Francis as a hilarious Jesus impersonator and performance artist, has been put forward by the dutch writer Kees 't Hart, in a booklet about what he calls 'the disease that is admiration' | ||
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- | More on Saint Francis as a patron saint of ecology, in the last paragraph on this page: | ||
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=== Saint Francis on Gardening === | === Saint Francis on Gardening === | ||
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The landscape that Thomas shows him (Francis red.) gazing upon, especially its fields and vineyards, betrays the unmistakable marks of human cultivation, | The landscape that Thomas shows him (Francis red.) gazing upon, especially its fields and vineyards, betrays the unmistakable marks of human cultivation, | ||
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+ | ===== Saint Francis as a performance artist ===== | ||
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+ | When brother Francis wanted to say the name of Jesus, his biographer Thomas de Celano recounts, he would sometimes use the phrase 'child of Bethlehem' | ||
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+ | In the time of Francis Europe was going through a first wave of raw capitalism. Business was challenging the state and the religious system. Francis is recognized as the biggest religious genius Europe has ever produced. He has a great sense of PR. Francis went around the Italian countryside with an odd bunch of followers re-enacting the life of Jesus and his disciples. He had a vast media campaign including printed portraits, live animals and most powerful of all perhaps his Jack-Ass like stunts and controversial live events. These would include being dragged through the city behind a wagon, bringing live animals to mass, stripping naked on the market in front of high officials. He was a show-man, singer songwriter, performance artist, Jesus-impersonator[1], | ||
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+ | [1]The view of brother Francis as a hilarious Jesus impersonator and performance artist, has been put forward by the dutch writer Kees 't Hart, in a booklet about what he calls 'the disease that is admiration' | ||
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+ | More on Saint Francis as a patron saint of ecology, in the last paragraph on this page: | ||
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