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CHAPTER XLII. 



0/ the fair Miracles which God wrought 

 through thofe holy Brethren, Brother Wel- 

 coi?ie, Brother Peter of Monticello, and 

 Brother Conrad of Offida: and ho7v Brother 

 Welcome bore a Leper fifteen Miles in mofl 

 brief Space : and to the onefpake Saint Michael, 

 and to the other came the Virgi7t Mary a7id 

 laid her Son in his Arms. 



THE Province of the Marches of An- 

 cona was of old adorned with holy 

 and exemplary Monks, even as the Heavens 

 are adorned with ftars ; which fame Monks, 

 like unto the luminaries of the fky, did illu- 

 mine and adorn the Order of Saint Fran- 

 cis and the world by their example and 

 their do6lrine. Firft among thefe men was 

 Brother Lucius Antico, who was indeed a 

 fliining light for fandlity and burned with 

 Divine Charity ; whofe glorious tongue, 

 informed of the Holy Ghoft, gathered won- 

 drous fruit by its preaching. Another was 

 Brother Welcome of San Severino, which 

 was feen by Brother Maximus lift up into 

 the air for a great fpace, he being at prayer 

 in the wood ; for the which miracle the 



devout 



