First Impressions #52: Patricia Appelbaum

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015

Patricia Appelbaum, St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint, University of North Carolina Press, 2015, 288pp., $35 — Patricia Appelbaum, St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint, University of North Carolina Press, 2015, 288pp., $35

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Art Remillard talks with Patricia Appelbaum about her new book St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint. Appelbaum is an independent scholar of religion and American culture, who teaches part-time at the University of Massachusetts. For more on the author and her book, readers can visit her blog St. Francis Sightings.