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Chapter XCII How he was found going bewailing in a loud voice the Passion of Christ Notlong after his conversion, when he was walking on a time on

Complete three-work composite: CCEL Fioretti; Salter 1904 Life and Miracles; Evans 1899 / Goretti 2025 Mirror
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Chapter XCII How he was found going bewailing in a loud voice the Passion of Christ Notlong after his conversion, when he was walking on a time on
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the way not far from the church of the Blessed Mary of the Little
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Portion, he went making lamentation in a loud voice. But a certain spiritual man met him, and fearing that he had a pain from some sickness, said unto him: “What aileth thee, brother?” But he made answer: “Thus ought I to go throughout the whole world without shame, bewailing the Passion of my Lord.”
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Thereupon he also did begin to lament sore and to shed tears. This man we knew and understood this from himself, and much comfort and pity did he make for the Blessed Francis and for us his companions.

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Chapter XCI And first, that he paid no need unto his own infirmities for the love of Christ’s Passion Suchwas the Blessed Francis’s fervency of love and compassion toward Chapter XCIII How the joyous songs that he did sometimes make out of doors would be turned into tears and pity for Christ D