Excerpt: ... he knelt there alone in prayer, a poor woman entered the Church and asked an alms of him for the love of God. "I have nothing," the holy man replied; "but the Altar is loaded with ornaments, and I will go see if I cannot find something to give you." A golden lamp hung above the Altar, decked about with silver bells. Examining the lamp, he said to himself: "Those little bells are but idle vanities. The true ornament of yonder Altar is the body of St. Francis, which reposes naked under the flags with a black ...
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Excerpt: ... he knelt there alone in prayer, a poor woman entered the Church and asked an alms of him for the love of God. "I have nothing," the holy man replied; "but the Altar is loaded with ornaments, and I will go see if I cannot find something to give you." A golden lamp hung above the Altar, decked about with silver bells. Examining the lamp, he said to himself: "Those little bells are but idle vanities. The true ornament of yonder Altar is the body of St. Francis, which reposes naked under the flags with a black stone for a pillow." And drawing his knife from his pocket, he detached the little silver bells, one after the other, and gave them to the poor woman. Presently, when the Sacristan, his meal finished, returned to the Church, Fra Giovanni, the holy man of God, said to him: "Never trouble, my brother, about the little bells that belonged to the lamp. I have given Pg 152 them away to a poor woman who had need of them." Now Fra Giovanni did in this wise, because he knew by revelation that all the things in this world, belonging to God, belong of rights to the poor. And he was blamed on earth by men whose thoughts were given over to riches. But he was found praiseworthy in the sight of the Divine Goodness. Pg 153 III THE SERAPHIC DOCTOR ra Giovanni was not proficient in the knowledge of letters, and he rejoiced in his ignorance as being an abundant source of humiliations. But after watching one day in the Cloister of Santa Maria degli Angeli a number of Doctors of Theology in meditation on the perfections of the Most Holy Trinity and the Mysteries of the Passion, he began to doubt whether they did not possess the love of God more fully than he, by reason of their wider knowledge. He was afflicted in his soul, and for the first time in his life fell into melancholy. But sadness was unnatural to one in his estate; for joy is the inheritance of the poor. He resolved to carry his difficulty to the General of the Order, to be rid of it as of a galling...
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