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Complete three-work composite: CCEL Fioretti; Salter 1904 Life and Miracles; Evans 1899 / Goretti 2025 Mirror
by humility and charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 67How he was beaten by devils and knew thereby that it was better
pleasing to God he should stay in poor and humble places than
with Cardinals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 68How he rebuked the brethren that wished to go by the way
of their wisdom and science and not by the way of humility,
and did foretell them of the reformation of the Order and the
bringing back thereof to its first condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 69How he foreknew and foretold that knowledge should be the
occasion of ruin to the Order, and how he forbade one of the
companions to devote himself to the study of preaching . . . . . . . . 68 70That in the coming time of tribulation, they that shall enter the
Order shall be blessed, and they that shall be approved shall be
better than they that went before them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 71How he made answer to his companion that asked him where-
fore he corrected not the excesses that did overtake the Order
in his own time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 72That by the prayers and tears of the humble and simple brethren
are converted those souls that seem to be converted by the
knowledge and preaching of others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 73How it was his will and teaching that superiors and preachers
should exercise themselves in prayer and works of humility . . . . . 73 74How unto his own shame he taught the brethren to know when
he was the servant of God and when not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 75How he would by all means that all the brethren should some-
times labor with their hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Part VThe Fifth Part, of His Zeal in the Perfecting of
the Rule and Toward the Whole Religion. . . . . 77 76How he praised the profession of the Rule, and would that
the brethren should know the same and talk thereof and die
therewithal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 77Of a holy layman that was martyred holding the Rule in his
hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 78How he would the Religion should always be under the protec-
tion and correction of the Roman Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 79Of the four prerogatives that God did confer upon the Religion
and did announce unto the Blessed Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 80Of the conditions that he said were necessary in a Minister
General and in his companions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 81How the Lord spoke unto him when he was sore afflicted by
reason of the brethren that did decline from perfection . . . . . . . . 82 82Of the special zeal that he had unto the place of the Blessed
Mary of the Little Portion, and of the ordinances that he made
therein against idle words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 83How he did admonish the brethren that they should never
forsake this place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 84Of the prerogatives that the Lord wrought in the place of
S. Mary of the Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Part VIThe Sixth Part, of his Zeal for the Perfection
of the Brethren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 85And first, how he did describe unto them a perfect brother . . . . . 89 86How he did describe wanton eyes, that he might induce the
brethren to honorable living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 87Of three words that he left unto the brethren to preserve their
perfection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 88Of the love that he showed unto the brethren when near his
death by giving to each a morsel of bread as did Christ . . . . . . . . . 92 89How he feared lest any tribulation should befall the brethren
by reason of his infirmities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 90How he did admonish the sisters of S. Clara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Part VIIThe Seventh Part, of His Continual Fervency
of Love and Compassion Toward the Passion of
Christ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 91And first, that he paid no need unto his own infirmities for the
love of Christ’s Passion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 92How he was found going bewailing in a loud voice the Passion
of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 93How the joyous songs that he did sometimes make out of doors
would be turned into tears and pity for Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96