Chapter XXV How he went forth with fervor to a certain poor man that went with alms praising God Atanother time, also, while the Blessed Francis was sojourning at S. Mary
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Chapter XXV How he went forth with fervor to a certain poor man that went with alms praising God Atanother time, also, while the Blessed Francis was sojourning at S. Mary
of the Little Portion, a certain poor man, right spiritual, came by the
highway as he returned from Assisi, whither he had gone for alms, and he went along praising God in a loud voice with great gladness. But when he came nigh the church of the Blessed Mary, the Blessed Francis heard him, and forthwith went out to him with exceeding great fervor and joy, meeting him in the way, and with much gladness kissing his shoulder, whereon he bore the wallet with his alms. And he took the wallet from his shoulder and set it on his own shoulder, and so carried the same into the house of the brethren, and said before the brethren: “Thus would I that my brother should go and return with alms, glad and joyful and praising God.”