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midft which he had never feen on earth. 

 Thus difmiffed by Saint Francis, he re- 

 turned, albeit relu6lantly, to the world. 

 Awaking and returning to his fenfes 

 and reviving, the Brothers were ringing 

 the bells for Primes : fo that that Vifion 

 had endured no longer than from Matins 

 unto Primes, although to him it feemed as 

 it had endured for many years. And relat- 

 ing all this Vifion to his Superior in its due 

 order, within feven days he began to grow 

 fevered ; and the eighth day Saint Francis 

 came to fetch him, even as he had prom- 

 ifedjwith a vaft multitude of glorious Saints, 

 and took his foul thence to the Kingdom 

 of the Bleffed, unto Eternal Life. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



How Saint Francis converted two Scholars of 

 Bologna and made Friars of them ; and then 

 rid one of them of a fore Temptation which 

 befet him. 



SAINT FRANCIS once coming to the 

 city of Bologna, all the people of that 

 town ran out to fee him : and fo great was 



the 



