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THOMAS OF CELANO

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS OF See also:CELANO , Franciscan See also:friar and See also:disciple and biographer of St See also:Francis of See also:Assisi. See also:Born at Celano in the Abruzzi, be joined St Francis probably about 1214, and he appears to have been one of the first See also:band of friars who went into See also:Germany. He was commissioned by See also:Gregory IX. to write the See also:Life of St Francis, and in 1229 he completed the First See also:Legend; in 1247 at the command of the See also:minister See also:general he composed the Second Legend, and a few years later the See also:Tract on the Miracles of St Francis. He also composed in 1255 the Legend of St See also:Clare; and he is one of those to whom the sequence See also:Dies irae is attributed. Thomas of Celano's writings on St Francis have been critically edited by E. d'See also:Alencon in 19136; the value of this See also:work is enhanced by the fact that See also:critical See also:opinion is veering See also:round to the view that Thomas of Celano is the best authority for the life of the See also:saint (see " See also:Note on the See also:Sources," appended to See also:article FRANCIS OF Assisi). An See also:English See also:translation (The Lives of S. Francis of Assisi by See also:Brother Thomas of Celano) by A. G. See also:Ferrers See also:Howell appeared in 1908. All that is known of Thomas of Celano is brought together in Edouard d'Alencon's Prolegomena; see also introduction to Ferrers Howell's translation. (E. C.

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