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CHAPTER XXVIII. 



0/(zn Ec/iafy whicJi fcizcdup07i Brother Bernard 

 and held liimfrom Matins eve?i until Nones, he 

 being all that /pace unconjcioiis of Aught. 



THE great favor which our Lord oft- 

 times fliowed to thofe poor Evange- 

 lifts who forfook the world for love of 

 Chrift is fet forth in Brother Bernard 

 of Quintavalle, who, after taking on the 

 habit of Saint Francis, was very many 

 times abforbed in God, in the contempla- 

 tion of celcftial things. Among others, it 

 happened upon a time that being in Church 

 hearkening to the Mafs, and ffcanding with 

 his whole mind bent on God, he became 

 fo abforbed and rapt in the Lord, that at 

 the Elevation of the Hoft he was confcious 

 of naught, neither knelt, nor bared his head, 

 as did the others ; but without once wink- 

 ing, did ftand fteadfaftly gazing from the 

 hour of Matins until Nones, as if infen- 

 fible : and after Nones, returning to him- 

 felf, did go about the Convent crying in 

 tones of awe and wonder : " O Brothers ! 

 O Brothers ! O Brothers ! There is no 



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