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alked him, faying, " What does my Lord 

 and Mafter Jefus Chrift command me to 

 do ? " Brother Maximus made anfvver : 

 "Both to Brother Sylvefter and to Sifter 

 Clara, with her Sifters, Chrift has replied 

 and made manifeft that it is His will that 

 you ftiall go forth into the world to preach ; 

 forafmuch as He did not call you for your- 

 felf alone, but even alfo for the falvation of 

 others." And then Saint Francis, when that 

 he had heard this anfwer and learned there- 

 from the will of Jefus Chrift, rofe up with 

 the greateft fervor, faying, " Let us go forth 

 in the name of God." And he took for his 

 Companions Brother Maximus and Brother 

 Andrew, holy men both ; and going forth 

 filled with the things of the Spirit, without 

 confidering their road or their way, they 

 came to a Caftle, which is called Savur- 

 niano, and Saint Francis began to preach ; 

 and he firft commanded the Swallows, which 

 were finging, to keep filence fo long as 

 until he fhould have preached ; and the 

 Swallows obeyed him ; and he preached in 

 this place with fuch fervor that all the men 

 and the women in that Caftle, from devotion, 

 would have followed after him and forfaken 

 the Caftle ; but Saint Francis forbade them, 



faying, 



