The "poor man" of Assisi (1182-1226) Christian spirituality is an ongoing inspiration, for his eventful life is as fascinating as his message expressed with poetic images, for example, in the Canticle of Brother Sun began as the ambitious son of a merchant of Assisi and completed in the poverty of the Gospel, which became their spiritual freedom. Niklaus Kuster recounts the life of an extremely holy man: its origin privileged existential shocks of his youth, radical change to stand beside the poor, their unconventional group of siblings, Clara as a companion extraordinary and painful consummation with the "Sister Death." The Gospel, lived up to its ultimate consequences, inspiring multiple actions, is the center of the spirituality of Francis, for solidarity with those living on the margins of society, to reform the Church from below for a free vision the creation and creatures to praise God and poetic vision of universal brotherhood._x000D_
These impulses are still working to this day the Franciscan movement, which has rediscovered his life and his message. Niklaus Kuster also follows these traces and demonstrate that broad "Poverello" is a perennial figure of contemporary relevance.