by Peter James | Apr 1, 2024 | St. Francis of Assisi
The BBC in 1957 aired a television special about a family in Switzerland harvesting a bumper crop of spaghetti from a spaghetti tree. Since pasta was relatively unknown in the United Kingdom at the time, unsuspecting viewers were oblivious that this news segment was...
by Peter James | Feb 20, 2023 | St. Francis of Assisi
It is commonly called The Prayer of St. Francis. I hate to burst the bubble, but there is no record of the prayer anywhere in Francis’ writings. The earliest mention of the prayer associated with Francis is in a 1912 French periodical. The prayer gained popularity...