Crusades

Name: Film Premiere: St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt
Start: 2017-04-23T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2017-04-23T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Santa Teresa Parish

April 2017
Featured April 23, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Film Premiere: St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt

Santa Teresa Parish 794 Calero Ave, San Jose, CA, United States

During the Crusades, Saint Francis of Assisi risked his life by walking across enemy lines to meet the Sultan of Egypt, the Muslim ruler Al-Malik al-Kamil. This remarkable encounter, and the commitment to peace of the two men behind it, sucked the venom out of the Crusades and changed the relationship between Muslims and Christians […]

April 2017