A Watch in the Night Art and Poetry ” observed the red-haired young

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Combining extraordinary empathy with relentless candor

promoted a particular type of subsidiarity

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A Watch in the Night Art and Poetry ” observed the red-haired youngBy Helen C. White A Watch in the Night tells of one Jacopone da Todi, a famous poet of the Middle Ages. Devastated by the sudden death of his wife, Jacopone forsakes all his earthy possessions, undertaking a new life of asceticism and penance and eventually joining the Franciscan Order. There he assumes a critical role in the Orders internal struggles between the Conventuals, who affirm a more lenient interpretation of St. Franciss rule, and