Go and Rebuild

He Kissed the Leper. He Argued with the Pope. He Sailed to the Sultan. And the Wounds Would Not Stay Hidden. You have seen the birdbaths. You have heard the legend. But the real Francis of Assisi — the merchant's son who stripped naked in a public square, who wept over sin until his eyes went blind, who walked into a sultan's war camp armed with nothing but the Gospel — is far stranger, far braver, and far more alive than any garden statue has ever let on. Go and Rebuild tears away the plaster and finds the breathing man beneath. This is not a comfortable biography of a comfortable saint. This is the story of a conversion that cost everything, a poverty that was chosen with open eyes, a joy that was forged in grief, and a love for Christ so literal and so total that it marked his body before it marked history. What Awaits You Inside The conversion in full: From the silk-clad son of a prosperous cloth merchant to the beggar kneeling before a crumbling chapel — trace every step of the transformation that shocked a town and launched a movement. The brothers: Who were the first men who followed him into radical poverty, and what did it actually cost them? Meet the movement before it became an institution. Lady Poverty: Understand why Francis called poverty a bride, not a burden — and why that distinction changes everything about how we read his life and our own. The lepers: The single encounter Francis himself called the turning point of his life, explored with the depth it demands. The sultan: The astonishing journey across the front lines of the Fifth Crusade, and what the meeting between Francis and Sultan al-Kamil reveals about faith, courage, and the limits of holy war. The wounds: La Verna, the stigmata, and the final years — the grief, the near-blindness, the Canticl

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