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Jacques de Vitry, who was himself an eminent preacher, " it was God who 

 conferred upon him his persuasive accents. Those who had heard him 

 struggled to get a piece from his garments, and he was compelled to have a 

 new frock every day. He was obliged to provide himself with a stout stick, 

 with which he kept off the crowd which would otherwise have suffocated 

 him. They did not murmur at the wounds inflicted by the blows which he 

 dealt them, and, in the ardour of their faith, they licked their own blood, as if 



Fig. 397. Portrait of Pope Honorius III. (12161227), who exhorted Louis VIII. to undertake 

 the Crusade against the Alhigenses, and instituted in 1216 the Order of Dominican Friars. 

 Fresco Painting upon Gold Ground in Mosaic, in the ancient Basilica of St. Paul-without-the- 

 Walls, Home. 



it had been sanctified because made to flow by this man of God." Foulques 

 had all the outspoken boldness of the popular preachers of the end of the 

 fifteenth century, sparing no man in his criticisms and anathemas. One day, 

 when preaching before Richard, King of England, he exclaimed, " I advise 

 you, in the name of God, to marry as quickly as possible your three daughters, 

 lest some evil befall you." " You are mistaken," rejoined the King ; " I have 



