Chapter CIX How he did foretell that his body would be honored after his death Oneday, when he was lying sick in the Bishop’s house at Assisi, a certain
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Chapter CIX How he did foretell that his body would be honored after his death Oneday, when he was lying sick in the Bishop’s house at Assisi, a certain
spiritual brother said unto him by way of a jape, half-laughingly:
“For how much wouldst thou sell all thy sack-cloths unto the Lord? Many baldachins and cloths of silk shall hereafter be set upon this little body of thine!” For at that time he had his cassock covered with sack-cloth and even his coverlid was also of sack-cloth.
And the Blessed Francis made answer, or rather, not he but the Holy Spirit by him, and with much fervor and gladness of spirit said: “Thou speakest truth, seeing that so will it be for the praise of my God and by His grace!”