God's Pauper is an imaginative retelling of the life of St Francis.
Kazantzakis'
writings are an anguished expression of the eternal struggle between the spirit and flesh, and he uses the story of St Francis to draw us into the Maelstrom.
The story is dramatically unfolded to us by the Saint's constant companion, Frate Leone, who takes us through agonies of physical and spiritual humiliation.
We accompany the Saint before the Pope to establish his Brotherhood;