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the office of Matins and at the Midnight 

 Mafs ; moreover, did receive Holy Com- 

 munion, and was then tranfported again 

 to her bed. The Nuns returning back to 

 Saint Clara, fervice being ended at St. 

 Damian's, faid to her : " Oh, our Mother, 

 Sifter Clara, what exceeding confolation 

 has been ours at this facred feaft of the 

 Nativity ! Would it had pleafed God that 

 you might have been among us ! " And 

 Saint Clara replied : " Thankfgiving and 

 praife give I unto Our Lord Chrift Jefus ; 

 may His name be bleffed, my beloved Sifters 

 and Daughters, forafmuch as I have wit- 

 neffed every folemn rite of this moft holy 

 night, and even greater things than you 

 have feen, to the great confolation of my 

 foul : forafmuch as through the interceffion 

 of my Father Saint Francis, and by the 

 Grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, I was pref- 

 ent in the Church of my venerable Father 

 Saint Francis, and heard all the Office with 

 my bodily as well as my fpiritual ears, and 

 the found of the organ as it was played ; 

 and there too I did partake of the moft 

 Holy Communion. Wherefore for all thefe 

 mercies voucbfafed to me, rejoice greatly 

 and thank our Lord Jefus Chrift. 



