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thoiifand of the Brethren ; and there came 

 thither Saint Dominic, the head and very 

 foundation of the Order of Preaching or 

 Dominican Friars, who was then jour- 

 neying from Burgundy to Rome. And 

 hearing of the congregation of the Chap- 

 ter which Saint Francis had called to- 

 gether upon the plain round about St. 

 Mary of the Angels, he turned afide to 

 fee it, with feven Brothers of his Order. 

 There was furthermore at this Chapter a 

 Cardinal moft pioufly attached to Saint 

 Francis, to whom he had prophefied that 

 he fhould yet be Pope, and even fo it was ; 

 the which Cardinal had come exprefQy 

 from Perugia, where the Court abode, to 

 Affifi ; daily he came to vifit Saint Fran- 

 cis and his Brothers, and daily he fang the 

 Mafs, and daily he preached a fermon to 

 the Brethren in the Chapter ; and the faid 

 Cardinal felt the utmoft devotion and de- 

 light when he came to vifit that holy 

 College. And feeing the Brethren fitting 

 round about St. Mary's, rank on rank, here 

 forty, here an hundred, and here eighty to- 

 gether, all abforbed in difcourfmg of God, 

 in Prayers and Lamentation, in a6ls of 

 Charity, and they obferving luch filence, 



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