Enough for Us
Francis of Assisi: Witness and Memory
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books
Francis wrote it on a palm-sized scrap of parchment: You are joy… You are all our riches, and enough for us.
The frescoes came later. So did the speaking crucifix, the disappearing leper, and the shining armor. The early witnesses are smaller: a cloth shop, a prison room, a leper house he entered rather than a road he crossed once, a bishop's courtyard, shoes left on a chapel floor.
Enough for Us keeps those layers apart. Earlier voices first. Later memory named as memory. Allan S. Martin follows the merchant's son who spent two years carrying stones to churches nobody used, then heard an old instruction and treated it as an instruction — no gold, no second tunic, no shoes.
This is not varnish, and it is not a debunking. It is the life under the frescoes, for readers who want Francis without being asked to confuse a painting with a source.
Publication
Publication date: October 30, 2026
Paperback ISBN 979-8-952889-05-7
Ebook ISBN 979-8-952889-06-4
Hardcover ISBN 979-8-952889-07-1
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