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What Saint Francis really said to Sultan El-Kamel?
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Saint Francis of Assisi: an anti-pacifist ode

Saint Francis never proposed a pacifist Christianity. He was undoubtedly for peace, ma, da santo, it couldn't have been for pacifism. Being peaceful means believing that peace (first and foremost with God) is an important value; being a pacifist means believing that peace is the highest value; and this is wrong because peace (as the absence of war) must be subordinated to the value of justice.
After the conversion, the entire life of the Saint of Assisi was marked by the anxiety of saving sinners and as regards non-Christians he was not interested in "dialogue" but in conversion.
Regarding the meeting with Sultan Melek-el-Kamel there are two important testimonies: that of Tommaso da Celano (the most famous biographer of Saint Francis) and that of Enlightened Friar, eyewitness of the meeting between Saint Francis and the sultan. Read More

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Saint Francis of Assisi and Msgr. Umberto Benigni
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Reporting of Federici Studies Center

Reprint of the “Social History of the Church” by Msgr. Umberto Benigni edited by the Centro Librario Sodalitium:

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La profezia di San Francesco d'Assisi: la divisione nella Chiesa e l'antico serpente sul trono
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It is an apocryphal text attributable to the Spiritual heretics or Fraticelli of the Middle Ages. Cf Membership no. 49, April 1999, pp. 65-67. Therefore it has no reliability on a Catholic level. While on a historical level it is an interesting observation. The clarification, arrived from Don Francesco Ricossa, which we thank, is also useful at the source “Gloria.tv”

Reporting of Luciano Gallina
“Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy shepherd, but an exterminator".
After summoning his brothers shortly before his death (1226), Francis warned of future tribulations, saying: “Brothers, act with strength and firmness while waiting for the Lord. A period of great tribulations and afflictions in which great temporal and spiritual dangers and embarrassments will occur; the charity of many will grow cold and the iniquity of the wicked will abound. The power of the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and others will have withered to the point that very few Christians will want to obey the true Supreme Pontiff and the Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity.
“At the decisive moment of this crisis, a non-canonically elected character, elevated to the papal throne, he will do his best to wisely dispense the deadly poison of his error to many. Read More

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