Guardian Angels of St Francis
Angels would manifested in the Porciuncula. Right the first Franciscan sources mention the devotion of St. Francis to the angelic spirits. His first biographer, Friar Thomas of Celano, described: "He lovingly venerated angels".
"Revered as partners." Francis “said that they should be revered wherever they want as partners and not less invoked as custodians. He taught not to offend his gaze and not to dare to do what would not be done in front of men. ” In the first biography of the saint, the memory of Saint Mary of the Angels, the Porciuncula, the favorite place of St. Francis, is emphasized because “it is the favorite place of the most abundant graces and frequent visits of angelic spirits” (1 Cel 106: 503; Spec 83: 786).
He found them in the Chapel of Saint Mary of the Angels. In two years of his hermit life Francis finished also repairing the abandoned church of St. Mary of the Angels, which he chose to live “because of his veneration of angels and his special love for the mother of Christ” (Leg M 3.8 : 1048). The Franciscan sources define this place “full of a more abundant grace” because in it the heavenly spirits “radiate their light” and make “hymns resonate” during the nights (Spec 84: 1782).
Heavenly thrones. A passage from the first Rule, according to the model of the prayer invocation, reminds the three archangels Michael, Gabriel and Rafael with the angelic choirs: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Domination, Principalities, Powers, Virtues, Angels and Archangels (Rnb 23:67). In these medieval narratives there is the theological idea of the occupation of the celestial thrones, unoccupied by wicked angels or devils and reserved for saints, especially those who have lived in virginity as the heavenly spirits.
Ecstasy of St. Francis. Legends remember the vision of Brother Pacific who saw St. Francis in ecstasy on a throne "more splendid and glorious" than all the other thrones, while the supernatural voice declared that that throne had been reserved for St. Francis for his humility, when he had been destined to the wicked angel Lucifer who lost him because of his pride and pride. That is why St. Francis was called by his followers and admirers "Seraphic Father" (2 Cel 122: 707; Leg M 6,6: 111; Leg P 23: 1570; Spec 60: 1750).
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