The Franciscan Hour – Francis, Innocent III, and Chesterton – Fr Peter George Flynn

About this episode

Fr. Peter George Flynn discusses the significant meeting between St Francis and Pope Innocent III, highlighting themes of poverty and spirituality.

Fr. Peter George Flynn weaves together the story of St Francis’s first meeting with Pope Innocent III — the vagabond friar who walked to Rome with a handful of followers and spoke to the pope of “Lady Poverty” and the sons of the King of Heaven — with the great ecclesiastical landmark of Innocent III’s […]

People in this episode

Host: Fr. Peter George Flynn

Topics covered

• St Francis
• Pope Innocent III
• Christianity
• Franciscan spirituality
• historical meeting
• religious figures

Keywords

• St Francis
• Pope Innocent III
• Chesterton
• Lady Poverty
• Franciscan
• religion
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lady Poverty

Places: Rome

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