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rather rapt, even until Tierce, and fo re- 

 mained. And forafmuch as I, who was 

 prefent at thefe things, defired mightily to 

 know thofe things which God had wrought 

 in him, ftraightway that he did return to 

 himfclf I did go in to him, and did pray 

 him for the love of God that he would tell 

 me all. Hence he, becaufe he had great 

 faith in me, did narrate to me all in order: 

 and among other things which he told me, 

 he declared that as he confidered the Body 

 and Blood of Chrifl; Jefus which were 

 before him, his heart was liquefied like 

 unto well-tempered wax, and it feemed as 

 his flefh were deprived of bones, in fuch 

 manner that he could not lift either hand 

 or arm to make the fign of the Crofs above 

 the Chalice. So, too, he told me that before 

 ever he became a Prieft it was revealed to 

 him of God that he fliould but feldom go 

 to Mafs ; but inafmuch as he had already 

 faid many Maffes, and this thing had never 

 yet befallen him, he bethought himfelf that 

 the revelation came not from God. And 

 neverthelefs fome fifty days before the 

 Affumption of Our Lady, whereon the 

 aforefaid chance befell him, he did receive 

 yet another revelation of God, telling him 



that 



