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joicing and likewife the people. And then 

 Saint Antony flayed in Rimini for many 

 days, preaching, and reaping a fpiritual 

 harveft of fouls. 



CHAPTER XLI. 



Ifo7a the Venerable Brother Swion freed from fore 

 Tci7iptatio7i a Brother which for that fa??ie 

 Caufe was about to forfake the Order. 



IN the beginning of the Order of Saint 

 Francis, while he yet lived, there came 

 into the Order a young man of Affifi, which 

 was called Brother Simon ; the which God 

 adorned and endowed with fo much grace, 

 fuch power of contemplation and eleva- 

 tion of mind, that throughout his life he 

 was ever a mirror of fan(5lity, according 

 as I have heard from them which long 

 abode with him. But very rarely was he 

 feen outfide his cell, and if ever he did 

 abide with the Brothers, he continually 

 did difcourfe of God. Never had he ftudied 

 the laws of grammar, and neverthelefs dif- 

 courfed fo deeply and fo loftily of God 

 and of the love of Jefus Chrift, that his 



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