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forth with our voices thofc things which 

 we felt in our hearts ; whereas the human 

 tongue being but faulty and ill-fitted to ex- 

 prefs clearly the fecret myfteries of God, it 

 would have rather added to our difcom- 

 fiture than our confolation ; wherefore 

 know that the King departed hence from 

 me wondrous well content and comforted 

 in fpirit." 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



How, being mjirm, Saint Clara 7vas borne by a 

 Miracle unto the Church of St. Francis, icpon 

 Chrijlmas Night, and heard Mafs therein. 



SAINT CLARA being once infirm of 

 body, fo that flie could in no manner 

 go forth to fay Mafs in Church with the 

 other Nuns, when the folemn feaft of the 

 Nativity of Chrift was at hand all the others 

 went to Matins ; and fhe remained behind 

 in bed ill content that fhe could not go forth 

 with the reft to receive that fpiritual comfort. 

 But Jefus Chrift, her heavenly Spoufe, loath 

 to leave her fo ill content, had her borne 

 by miraculous power unto the Church of 

 St. Francis, and thus was Ihe prefent at 



the 



