The Road to Assisi by Paul Sabatier

Author:Paul Sabatier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Fresco painting of Francis from Sacro Speco (“holy cave”), the grotto in which St. Benedict lived for a time in the fifth century. A Benedictine abbey still surrounds this place today in Subiaco, Italy. (Art reproduced from SEDGWICK, 1:74.)

CHAPTER TWELVE

His Inner Life and Wonder-Working

The missionary journey, undertaken under the encouragement of St. Clare and so poetically inaugurated by the sermon to the birds of Bevagna, appears to have been a continual triumph for Francis. Legend definitely takes possession of him. Whether he will or not, miracles burst forth under his footsteps. Quite unexpectedly the objects of which he had made use produced marvelous effects; folk came out from the villages in procession to meet him.

One day Brother Masseo desired to put his modesty to the test:

“Everybody follows you, everyone desires to see you, hear you, and obey you, and yet for all that you are neither beautiful, nor learned, nor of noble family. Where does it come from, then, that it should be you whom the world desires to follow?”

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