Frate Sole

Frate Sole (Brother Sun) is a 1918 Italian silent film based on the life of St Francis of Assisi, directed by Ugo Falena and Mario Corsi.

The film has four episodes, The kiss of the leper, In the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi, Time, and The stigmata.

The film was restored in 1998 with the assistance of Cineteca Italiana.^[1]

Cast

• Umberto Palmarini as St Francis of Assisi
• Silvia Malinverni as Clare of Assisi
• Rina Calabria as Agnes of Assisi, sister of Clare
• Filippo Ricci as Elia Buonbarone
• Lucienne Myosa as Sibilia, la cortigiana
• Bruno Emanuel Palmi as a nobleman

References

External links

• Frate Sole at IMDb

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Francis of Assisi

Organisations

• Order of Friars Minor (Custody of the Holy Land)
• Order of Saint Clare
• Secular Franciscan Order
  • Third Order of Saint Francis

Works by Francis

• Canticle of the Sun

Created

• Sanctuary of Greccio
• Nativity scene (live)

Honors

• Feast of Saints Francis and Catherine
• World Animal Day

Literature about

• Little Flowers of St. Francis

Visual art

• Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio)
• Saint Francis in Meditation (Caravaggio)
• Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio)
• Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (Caravaggio)
• Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto)
• São Francisco (Gonçalves)
• St Francis (Zurbarán)
• Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck)
• St. Francis in Ecstasy (Bellini)
• Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (studio of El Greco)
• St. Francis in Ecstasy (Zurbarán)

Music

• "All Creatures of Our God and King"
• The Canticle of the Sun (Sowerby)
• Le Laudi (Suter oratorio)
• Légende No. 1 (Liszt)
• Laudato si' (Reulein oratorio)
• Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise

Stage

• Nobilissima Visione (1938 ballet)
• Saint François d'Assise (1983 Messiaen opera)
• Samstag aus Licht (1983 Stockhausen opera)

Films

• Frate Sole (1918)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
• Francis of Assisi (1961)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
• Francesco (1989)
• St. Francis (2002)

Related

• List of places named after Saint Francis
• Madonna of Foligno
• Wolf of Gubbio
• Discalced
• Prayer of Saint Francis
• Society of Saint Francis
• Pope Francis
• "The Sermon of St. Francis" (poem)
• Pranchiyettan & the Saint

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