Tradition Magazine, Issue Seven: Money
Part IV: Poverty
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Introduction to Poverty
In an issue on money, wherein a great deal has been said about avarice, the love of money, and its cure, poverty, we would be loath to neglect expounding the latter. While it would not be fitting to suggest that everyone become monks or nuns—fleeing the world, giving away all our possessions, and embracing complete and abject poverty—it is certainly fit…
An Excerpt from the Life of Antony
About the Text: According to Athanasius, the Patriarch of Alexandria and, for a time, the lone defender of Nicaea, St. Antony was the first to go out into the desert of Egypt as a monk. He is, therefore, considered the founder of monasticism. Athanasius met Antony in his youth and learned much from him; he later wrote the
Sacrum Commercium: The Espousals of St. Francis to the Lady Poverty
About the text: St. Francis of Assisi (1181–1226) made such a dramatic impression on the popular imagination with his radical embrace of poverty that his holiness was undeniable and he was canonised only two years after his death. Immediately after his death, various accounts of Francis’ life and works appeared such as