The Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education and Italy’s
national committee for the upcoming 800th anniversary of St. Francis of
Assisi’s death have organized a three-day conference marking the eighth
centenary of the saint’s
Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Canticle of Creatures.
The conference, which began on December 2, includes a seminar for poets,
a public reading of the Canticle in Rome, and a pilgrimage to Assisi.
The dicastery has made available online a 256-page book, published in Italian and English, for the occasion.
