medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Bill East wrote in part:
>the familiar "Prayer of St
>Francis" ("Where there is despair, may I bring hope" etc.) is a modern
>composition with no connexion to St Francis; I think it occurs for the
>first time on a ninetenth-century holy picture, and has only become
>well known during the past thirty years or so.
See:
http://www.franciscan-archive.org/franciscana/peace.html
for its origin (in French, in 1912). Note that this antedates the
first appearance given at this typographical error-ridden page at the
same site:
http://www.franciscan-archive.org/patriarcha/peace.html (in 1915; no
language specified but by implication in French)
John
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