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CHAPTER LI. 



O/ the Holy Brother yames of Fallerone ; and 

 how, befo7'e he died, he did appear to Brother 

 jfohn of Vernia. 



AT the time when Brother James of 

 Fallerone, a man of much fan6lity, 

 lay very ill at the Convent of Moliano in 

 the territory of Fermo, Brother John of 

 Vernia, who was then abiding at the Con- 

 vent of Maffa, hearing of his affli6lion, 

 forafmuch as he loved him like his own 

 dear father, fell to praying for him, de- 

 voutly entreating God in filent prayer that 

 He would make whole the body of the faid 

 Brother James, if it were for his foul's beft 

 good ; and praying thus devoutly, he was 

 rapt in ecftafy, and faw in mid-air a vaft 

 army of Angels and Saints above his cell, 

 which was in the wood, encompaffed with 

 fuch fplendor that all the region round 

 about was lighted up with the glory 

 thereof ; and among thefe Angels he faw 

 the fick Brother James, for whom he 

 prayed, arrayed in white and fhining robes. 

 He alfo faw among them the bleffed 



Father 



