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Our keynote speaker for the upcoming symposium "San Francesco's Transitus at 800 (1226-2026): "The most saintly among the Italians, the most Italian among the saints" will be Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. His address on "Francis of Assisi: The Man Behind 800 Years of Legends" will take place Saturday, November 7 at 2 p.m. in the Catholic Foundation Boardroom (Cardinal Farrell Hall 219).Very Rev. Augustine Thompson, O.P. is a Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers. He is an internationally renowned author and currently the Praeses of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto. Father Thompson has had a distinguished academic career holding senior teaching positions at the University of Oregon and the University of Virginia (Charlottesville), as well as the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California. A well-published medieval historian, his many books and articles include most notably Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Cornell University Press, 2012) and Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), as well as Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars (New Priory Press, 2017).
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2026 marks the 800th anniversary of San Francesco’s Transitus, his earthly death, and the culmination of 18 months of official celebrations, which will also see the return of his feast day as an officially recognized federal holiday in Italy. Our symposium “San Francesco’s Transitus at 800 (1226-2026): ‘The most saintly among the Italians, the most Italian among the saints’” joins numerous other manifestations in Italy and around the world in recognition of the saint and aims to explore San Francesco’s specific contributions to Italian culture, language, literature, history, politics, architecture, and theology.
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University of Dallas, 1811 Maher Ln, Irving, TX 75062, United States
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