Here speaks a blossoming writer, poetical biographer, World War Two survivor, and monk.
If you have no time to waste on the usual biographies of St. Francis of Assisi, do consider this booklet.
Rather than the visible human side of those more prose-like contributions, monk Éloi evoques the human spirit of the saint in his endless love for creation and Creator. The saint that famously talked to birds and inspired some in the current climate movement is given here a direct voice, heart and soul that even keen historians seldom can attain. Externally important episodes are left aside, for the indeed more important yet more humble struggles of the inner live. Written from spring to spring, Sagesse D'un Pauvre guides you through a year to the end of his life. You will find on these pages within the difficulties of letting go what was build up, and the Poverello handing it away to the elements of nature and to those of his founded fraternity. Serving in the peace of the Lord, with the freshness of a summer rain, the example of Jesus written out in the Gospels.
In the French catholic world, this is renown book on Franciscan spiritual life.