The Little Flowers of St. Francis of AssisiBy: Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria, St. Francis With a new Preface by the noted writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of nearly fifty books of fiction and non fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time. St. Francis of Assisi's ecstatic embrace of a life of poverty revolutionized Christianity even as it transformed the ethics of the West. In this luminous and lively book, St. Francis's followers preserved his legend and those of his first disciples, combining