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Quotation from Early Franciscan Sources by Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others

“Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us and humble and precious and clean”

Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others (spoken by Francis of Assisi)

Early Franciscan Sources, Canticle of the Sun, trans. Louise Seymour Houghton (1919), after the Umbrian Italian tradition

Portrait of Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others

The Canticle gives creaturely elements a kinship language that later readers connect with ecological Francis.

Citation: "Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us and humble and precious and clean" — Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others, Early Franciscan Sources, Canticle of the Sun, trans. Louise Seymour Houghton (1919), after the Umbrian Italian tradition. (id early-franciscan-sources-q1)

Virtues: Humility

Portrait: StFrancis part, Parzi, Public domain.

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