Regis John Armstrong is a Capuchin Friar Minor and a world renowned expert on Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare of Assisi. He is Ordinary Professor of Spirituality, and The John C. and Gertrude P. Hubbard Professor of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He has authored nine books and many journal and encyclopedia articles as well as edited a number of other books related to his research. Fr. Armstrong earned a PhD in Historical Theology and Spirituality from Fordham University, and served his confreres in various positions of formation and administration. In addition to translating and editing Francis and Clare: The Complete Works, and three editions of Clare of Assisi: Early Documents, he was Editor-in-Chief of the four volume Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, and has written "St. Francis of Assisi: Writings for a Gospel Life, True Joy", along with a large number of articles. He taught at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome-where he was also Vice Rector, and at the Franciscan Institute of Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, New York, as well as, the Franciscan International Study Centre in Canterbury, England-where he served for ten years as a Governor. He is a co-founder of the Franciscan Institute of Asia, where he also taught. More recently, he has been a member of an international committee of eight Capuchins established to study and rewrite a proposed edition of the Capuchin Constitutions.

Noted Franciscan scholars Regis J. Armstrong, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, and William Short spearheaded a collabrative effort of translators, scholars and technicians to publish this series. Many of these texts had been published in critical, scholarly European editions, but were not available in English. All three volumes contain helpful introductions to each section, colored maps, cross references, and extensive annotation.
The Prophet contains:
A Book of the Praises of Saint Francis by Bernard of Besse
The Versified Life of Saint Francis by Henri d'Avranches
A Collection of Sayings of the Companions of Blessed Francis
The Tree of the Crucified Life of Jesus
A Mirror of the Perfection
The Book of Chronicles or of the Tribulations of the Order of Lesser Ones by Angelo Clareno
The Deeds of Blessed Francis and His Companions by Ugolino Boniscambi
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
Liturgical Texts for the Feast of the Stigmata of Saint Francis
The Kinship of Saint Francis by Arnald of Sarrant
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