The book The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi was written by author Fioretti Di San Francesco Here you can read free online of The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi a good or bad book?
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" Brother Maximus hearing fuch marvellous things concerning meeknefs, and knowing that it was a treafure of eternal life, began to be fo inflamed with love and longing for this virtue of meeknefs, that, raifmg his eyes with great fervor to Heaven, he made a vow and moft certain promife never more to be merry in this world until he mould feel the faid virtue abiding perfectly within him ; and from that time forth he would pafs almoft the entire day fhut up within his cell, mortifying himfelf wit...h fafts, vig- ils, prayers, and extreme lamentations and tears before God, to the end that he might wring from Him this virtue, wanting which he held himfelf worthy of Hell, and with which that friend of God, as he had heard, was fo plentifully endowed. And Brother Maximus, cheriming thus this defire for many days, it came to pafs that he one day entered into a wood, and in the fervor of his fpirit jfrancts of &nniai. 145 fpirit wandered on, weeping, fighing, groan- ing, and befeeching with ardent longing that God would grant him that divine vir- tue : and forafmuch as the Lord gladly hears the prayers of the contrite and the lowly, Brother Maximus being thus forlorn, a Voice came down from Heaven, and the fame called him twice: " Brother Maximus, Brother Maximus !
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