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is fo fruitful of reward ; forafmuch, as if 

 with the fackcloth of Saint Francis, for 

 love of Chrift, you dcfpife the world, and 

 mortify the flefli, and fight a good fight 

 againft the Foul Fiend, you fhall have rai- 

 ment like unto that which we do wear, and 

 a glory of light." And having heard thefe 

 words, the youth returned to his fenfes, 

 and greatly comforted by the vifion, he 

 drove far from him all temptation, and con- 

 feffed his fin before his Superior and the 

 Brethren ; and from that time forth he 

 ardently longed for afperity of penitence 

 and of attire, and ended his life in the 

 Order in great hoHnefs. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



0/ the Moji Holy Miracle, which Saint Francis 

 performed, when he cofiverted the very fierce 

 Wolf at Gubbio. 



IN the days when Saint Francis dwelt in 

 the city of Gubbio, there appeared in 

 that region a very great, terrible, and fierce 

 Wolf, the which not only devoured animals, 

 but even alfo men ; infomuch that all the 



citizens 



