He’s coming at this not from a Western perspective but the perspective of the developing world, the global south. This is not about moral equivalence. He knows Russia is the aggressor. Potter, D. L. Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c. 1480–1560 (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2008). Peter the Great and Catherine the Great’s efforts to expand Russian territory in the 17th and 18th centuries included conquering parts of Ukraine.

Much of the military activity of Francis's reign was focused on his sworn enemy, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Francis and Charles maintained an intensely personal rivalry. Charles, in fact, brashly challenged Francis to single combat multiple times. In addition to the Holy Roman Empire, Charles personally ruled Spain, Austria, and a number of smaller possessions neighbouring France. He was thus a constant threat to Francis' kingdom. O'Reilly, Bernard (1897). "Sayings of Brother Giles, one of the First Disciples of St. Francis of Assisi.". Beautiful pearls of Catholic truth. Henry Sphar & Co.Continent Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers on the continent. avenge blasphemous acts, or cruelties and killings of Christians (even if these took place long ago)

The pontiff knows Russian history and this is very good,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said on Tuesday. “It has deep roots, and our heritage is not limited to Peter [the Great] or Catherine, it is much more ancient.Such an incident is alluded to in a scene in the late 13th-century fresco cycle, attributed to Giotto, in the upper basilica at Assisi. [d]

In March, he described Vladimir Putin as a “cultured man” and said the conflict had been driven by the interests of competing “empires” and “the great powers”. Francois I, hoping that Morocco would open up to France as easily as Mexico had to Spain, sent a commission, half commercial and half diplomatic, which he confided to one Pierre de Piton. The story of his mission is not without interest" in The conquest of Morocco by Cecil Vivian Usborne, S. Paul & co. ltd., 1936, p. 33. Jensen, De Lamar, ed. Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company (2nd ed. 1991). Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli Sociorum S. Francisci: The Writings of Leo, Rufino and Angelo Companions of St. Francis, original manuscript, 1246, compiled by Brother Leo and other companions (1970, 1990, reprinted with corrections), Oxford: Oxford University Press, edited by Rosalind B. Brooke, in Latin and English, ISBN 0-19-822214-9, containing testimony recorded by intimate, longtime companions of St. Francis.e.g., Jacques de Vitry, Letter 6 February or March 1220 and Historia orientalis (c. 1223–1225) cap. XXII; Tommaso da Celano, Vita prima (1228), §57: the relevant passages are quoted in an English translation in Tolan 2009, pp.19– and Tolan 2009, p.54 respectively. On a pilgrimage to Rome, he joined the poor in begging at St. Peter's Basilica. [8] He spent some time in lonely places, asking God for spiritual enlightenment. He said he had a mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the forsaken country chapel of San Damiano, just outside Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis, Francis, go and repair My church which, as you can see, is falling into ruins." He took this to mean the ruined church in which he was presently praying, and so he sold some cloth from his father's store to assist the priest there. [16] When the priest refused to accept the ill-gotten gains, an indignant Francis threw the coins on the floor. [7] Francis of Assisi, a 1961 film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl, starring Bradford Dillman as Francis. Dolores Hart, who plays Clare, later became a Benedictine nun. The Sultan and the Saint, [82] a 2016 film directed by Alexander Kronemer, starring Alexander McPherson