The Sources for the Lives of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare of Assisi, and Saint Anthony of Padua were translated and edited into Maltese and published in four volumes in the years 2005-2008 by Edizzjoni TAU, the publishing house of the Maltese OFM Province. These publications were the fruit of long years of hard work on the part of a group of Franciscan brothers and a Poor Clare Sister, namely Fr. Raymond Camilleri OFM, the Editor-in-chief, Fr. Marjanu Vella OFM, Fr. Joseph Benedict Xuereb OFM, Fr. Noel Muscat OFM, and Sister Maria Immacolata Bellizzi OSC. Except for Fr. Noel Muscat these Franciscans are all dead, but the monumental work they left as a legacy lives on. The Maltese Franciscans are proud that, although being such a small Province, they have published all the Franciscan Sources in translation from the original Latin, and with introductions, notes, bibliography and indexes. Together with these Sources, Fr. Noel Muscat also published the Life of Saint Francis discovered by Jacques Dalarun, and known as the Vita Brevior, which we also include as another volume among the Sources. These volumes are now available online on this website as another effort to offer a service to Franciscan formation and to the knowledge of the Franciscan life and mission to all those who would like to read them.
The complete list of these four volumes plus one, which can be downloaded from this website in the Franciscan Texts section, is the following:
• Fonti għall-ħajja ta’ San Franġisk t’Assisi. Vol. I – Il-Kitbiet ta’ San Franġisk. Fonti Medjevali tal-ħajja ta’ San Franġisk. Traduzzjoni mill-Edizzjoni Kritika Latina: Noel Muscat, Marjanu Vella, Ġużepp Beneditt Xuereb. Introduzzjonijiet u apparat kritiku: Noel Muscat, Edizzjoni TAU, Provinċja Franġiskana Maltija tal-Patrijiet Minuri, Malta 2005, pp. xxii+663.
• Fonti għall-ħajja ta’ San Franġisk t’Assisi. Vol. II – Fonti Medjevali tal-ħajja ta’ San Franġisk. Traduzzjoni mill-Edizzjoni Kritika Latina: Noel Muscat, Marjanu Vella, Ġużepp Beneditt Xuereb. Introduzzjonijiet u apparat kritiku: Noel Muscat, Edizzjoni TAU, Provinċja Franġiskana Maltija tal-Patrijiet Minuri, Malta 2005, pp. vi+599.
• Fonti għall-ħajja ta’ Santa Klara. Il-Kitbiet ta’ Santa Klara. Fonti Medjevali tal-ħajja ta’ Santa Klara. Traduzzjoni mill-Edizzjoni Kritika Latina: Marija Immakulata Bellizzi, Noel Muscat, Ġużepp Beneditt Xuereb. Introduzzjonijiet u apparat kritiku: Noel Muscat, Sorijiet Klarissi, Monasteru Santa Klara, Malta – Edizzjoni TAU, Patrijiet Franġiskani, Malta 2006, pp. 460.
• Fonti għall-ħajja ta’ Sant’Antnin ta’ Padova. Traduzzjoni mill-Edizzjoni Kritika Latina: Noel Muscat, Ġużepp Beneditt Xuereb. Introduzzjonijiet u apparat kritiku: Noel Muscat, Edizzjoni TAU, Patrijiet Franġiskani, Malta 2008, pp. 549.
• San Franġisk t’Assisi. Ħabib ta’ Alla, Ħabib ta’ Kristu, Ħabib tal-Kurċifiss. Il-Ħajja tal-Imqaddes Missier Tagħna Franġisku (Vita Brevior) ta’ fra Tommaso da Celano. Introduzzjoni u Traduzzjoni ta’ Noel Muscat, Patrijiet Franġiskani, Malta 2016, pp. 77.
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