<P> The earliest known record of the prayer is its appearance , as a `` beautiful prayer to say during Mass '' , in the December 1912 issue of the small devotional French Catholic publication La Clochette , `` the bulletin of the League of the Holy Mass '' . Although the prayer was published anonymously , Renoux concluded that , with few exceptions , the texts in La Clochette were generally written by its founding editor , Father Esther Bouquerel ( 1855 -- 1923 ) . </P>
<P> The earliest known record of the prayer is its appearance , as a `` beautiful prayer to say during Mass '' , in the December 1912 issue of the small devotional French Catholic publication La Clochette , `` the bulletin of the League of the Holy Mass '' . Although the prayer was published anonymously , Renoux concluded that , with few exceptions , the texts in La Clochette were generally written by its founding editor , Father Esther Bouquerel ( 1855 -- 1923 ) . </P>
who wrote the song prayer of st francis
who wrote the song prayer of st francis
Father Esther Bouquerel
Father Esther Bouquerel