GRAZIANO da PARIGI. - Capuchin writer of the Parisian province, b. 5 March 1875; he received the habit of the Order on 4 Oct. 1896; d. in Paris on 1 Aug. 1943.
Among his publications on Franciscan subjects, particularly esteemed is the Histoire de la fondation et de l'évolution de l'Ordre des Frères Mineurs au XIIIe siècle (Paris 1928), a work awarded by the Académie de France, in which he sets forth with balanced judgment, through an analysis of documents and events, the establishment of the Order, amid conflicting tendencies, in that form of life and activity corresponding to its historical task. Death prevented him from continuing the study, which had stopped at 1318. In the monograph St. François d'Assise. Sa personnalité. Sa spiritualité (Paris 1927; 2nd ed. there 1928; Italian trans., Reggio Emilia 1929; Dutch trans., Rijswijk 1931; Spanish trans., Madrid 1932), he establishes its distinctive features among differing interpretations. In the pamphlet St. François d'Assise et l'influence sociale de l'Evangile (Paris-Couvin 1910), he reveals the evangelical factors of Franciscan action. He also published valuable articles on Franciscan themes in various journals.