Jon M. Sweeney is an independent scholar and author of popular history, spirituality, poetry/mysticism, memoir, and young reader fiction. He's one of the most popular interpreters of the life and work of Francis of Assisi, the author of 30 books including many about St. Francis, such as "When Saint Francis Saved the Church," "The Complete Francis of Assisi," and "The Enthusiast," a biography Fr. Richard Rohr called "An immense and important contribution to our understanding of the great saint." HBO optioned the film rights to Sweeney's history about the medieval Celestine V, "The Pope Who Quit." Sweeney has been interviewed on CBS News, WGN-TV, Fox News, and CBS Saturday Morning. He lectures frequently and leads retreats.
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Books by Jon M. Sweeney
Pierre Corneille, Thomas Chalmers, George Hickes, Rev. William Rev. William Benham, Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu, Richard Challoner, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, Michael Oakley, Paul M. Bechtel, Joseph N. Tylenda, Elder Mullan, Henri Belleau, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, William C. Creasy, Thomas Rogers, Sixtus V Pope, Hal McElwaine Helms, Harold C. Gardiner, Richard Whitford, Edgar Daplyn, David Alexander MacLennan, E. M. Blaiklock, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton, Richard Whitford, Wilfrid Raynal, John Payne, Richard Challoner, Félicité Robert De Lamennais, Jon M. Sweeney, Rev. William Benham, Henry Parry Liddon, Valenti Angelo, Challoner, Leo Sherley-Price, Paul Wesley Chilcote: Imitación de Cristo (Spanish language, 1964, Porrúa)
Imitación de Cristo
by Pierre Corneille, Thomas Chalmers, George Hickes, and 34 others