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CHAPTER V. 



How that Saint, BrotJicr Bernard of AJfifi, was 

 dcfpatchcd by Sa'mt Francis to Bologna, and 

 there took up his Abode. 



INASMUCH as Saint Francis and his 

 companions were called of God and 

 chofen to bear in their hearts and in their 

 lives, and to preach with their tongues, the 

 Crofs of Chrift, they both feemed and were 

 men who crucified the fiefh, alike in their 

 habit and in their auftere life, alike in their 

 every a6l and deed ; and neverthelefs they 

 defired the rather to endure fliame and 

 opprobrium for the love of Chrift than to 

 receive worldly honors, or reverence, or the 

 praife of men : thus injuries rejoiced them 

 and honors affli6led them ; and thus they 

 paffed through the world as Pilgrims and 

 Strangers, bearing with them nought fave 

 Chrift Crucified ; and yet they were the 

 true Vine, which is Chrift, bringing forth 

 great and good fpiritual fruit, which they 

 garnered in for God. It happened in the 

 firft days of the Order that Saint Francis 

 fent Brother Bernard forth to Bologna, to 



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