On the Road with Francis of Assisi Author:Linda Bird Francke In retracing the travels of the medieval saint who rattled all of Christendom, Linda Bird Francke has marvelously woven together the realities of the 13th century with those of the 21st in a way that will delight and inform readers, whether thay are tramping the hill towns of Umbria or dreaming at home in their armchairs..