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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi (Classic Reprint)
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi - Classic Reprint Author:Saint Francis of Assisi IN THIS BOOK ARE CONTAINED CERTAIN LITTLE FLOWERS, MIRACLES, AND DEVOUT EXAMPLES OF THAT GLORIOUS POOR FOLLOWER OF CHRIST, SAINT FRANCIS, AND OF CERTAIN OF HIS HOLY COMPANIONS. TOLD TO THE PRAISE OF JESUS CHRIST. AMEN. WE have flrst to consider that the glorious Saint Francis in all the acts of his life was like unto Christ, our blessed Lord; fo... more »r even as Christ in the beginning of His preaching chose to Himself twelve Apostles who should renounce all worldly things and follow after Him in poverty and in other virtuous deeds, even so Saint Francis chose in the beginning of the foundation of his Order twelve companions, vowed to the most abject poverty; and also even as one of the twelve Apostles of Christ, reproved of God, went out and hanged himself by the neck, so one of the twelve Companions of Saint FranCiS, the same which was called Brother John of the Chapel, did turn apostate, and finally go out and hang himself by the neck.
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