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appeared in their midll vifibly and in the 

 bodily form of a mod lovely Youth ; and 

 blefling them, he filled them all with fuch 

 grace and fweetnefs that they were rav- 

 ifhed out of themfelves, and fell like dead 

 men, knowing nought of this world. And 

 then returning to their fenfes, Saint Fran- 

 cis faid to them : " My beloved Brothers, 

 give thanks to God, Who has been pleafed 

 to reveal the treafures of the Divine Wifdom 

 through the mouths of the fimplc ; foraf- 

 much as it is God Who opes the mouth 

 of the dumb and makes the tongue of the 

 fimple to difcourfe moft wifely." 



CHAPTER XV. 



JIo7v Saint Chwa ate with Saint Francis a?id 

 with his Brother Monks in St. Mary of the 

 Angels. 



SAINT FRANCIS, when he was at 

 Affifi, ofttimes vifited Saint Clara, giv- 

 ing her holy teachings ; and fhe having the 

 greateft defire to eat with him but once, 

 and entreating him many times to this end, 

 he would never grant her that Confolation. 



Hence, 



