Chapter XLI That he did renounce his office by reason of bad superiors Once, when he was asked by a certain brother wherefore he had cast
Complete three-work composite: CCEL Fioretti; Salter 1904 Life and Miracles; Evans 1899 / Goretti 2025 Mirror
Chapter XLI That he did renounce his office by reason of bad superiors Once, when he was asked by a certain brother wherefore he had cast
off the brethren from his own care, and delivered them into strange
hands, as though they did in no wise belong to him, he made answer: “My son, I do love the brethren the best I may, but if they would follow my footsteps, verily, then should I love them all the better, nor should I make me strange unto them. For some there be among the number of the superiors, that do draw them aside to other things, setting before them the example of the elders, and holding my advice as of little account, but that which they themselves do and how they do it will be made clearer in the end.”
And a little afterward, when he was weighed down by exceeding infirmity, in the vehemence of his spirit, he sat him upright in his pallet, crying out and saying: “Who be they that have snatched my Religion and my brethren from my hands? If I come to the General Chapter, I will show them of what kind is my will!”