Wisdom Vault — onlinknow.co.za

The friars had no other beds but the bare ground with here and there a little straw; for pillows they

had stones or pieces of wood. For which reasons they were held in much devotion; and so great was the

fame of their sanctity, that many came to see and hear them from the court of the Pope which was

at Perugia, and from other parts of the Valley of Spoleto. Many counts and barons, many knights and other gentlemen,

many Car¬ dinals, Bishops, and Abbots, many priests and much people, came to see this great and holy and humble

con¬ gregation; for the world had never yet witnessed so many holy men assembled together; and most especially they went

thither to see the saintly founder and father of the Order, who had taken from the world so many gifted

men, and had formed so beautiful and devout a flock to follow the steps of the true Pastor, Jesus Christ.