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The little flowers of the glorious Messer St. Francis and of his friars

CONTENTS I. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ the Crucified, and of His Mother the Virgin Mary. In this book are contained certain Little Flowers, Miracles and devout ensamples of the glorious mendicant of Christ, Messer St. Francis, and of certain of his Holy Companions, to the praise of Jesus Christ. Amen 1 II. Of Friar Bernard of Quintavalle, first companion of St. Francis 2 III. How for an evil thought which St. Francis had against Friar Bernard, he commanded the said Friar Bernard to tread with his feet three times upon his throat and upon his mouth 6 IV. How the Angel of God proposed a question to Friar Elias, guardian of a Place of Val di Spoleto, and because Friar Elias answered him proudly, departed and went on his way to St. James, where he found Friar Bernard and told him this story 9 V. How the Holy Friar Bernard of Assisi was sent by St. Francis to Bologna, and there founded a monastery 14 VI. How St. Francis blessed the holy Friar Bernard, and left him as his vicar, when he came to pass from this life 17 VII. How St. Francis passed a Lent in an island of the lake of Perugia, where he fasted forty days and forty nights, and ate no more than one half loaf 19 VIII. Ho

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