The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.
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The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.
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Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.
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At S. Omers :: By Iohn Heigham,
1618.
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Francis, -- of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
Franciscans -- Biography.
Christian saints -- Italy -- Assisi -- Biography.
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"The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01200.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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The life of Brother Simon of Assisium, the Disciple of sainct Francis
Of the holy conuersation of Brother Simon.
THE XLVI. CHAPTER.
BRother Simon of Assisium was called of God to holy Religion in the life time of S. Francis. This Religious was by the diuine Maiesty endwed with such abondance of grace, and raysed to such a high degree of contemplation, that his whole life was a mirrour of sanctity, and represented to all, the image of the bounty of God, according to the testimony of them that conuersed with him. He rare∣ly went out of his cell, and if sometime he conuersed with his brethren, his discourse was altogether of God. He alwayes sought solitary pla∣ces:
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and though he had neuer learned the grammer nor other hu∣mane sciences, he neuertheles discoursed so sublimely of God and of the most sweet loue of IESVS CHRIST, that his wordes seemed rather Angelicall then humane. Brother Iames of Massa and some other Religious, went one euening with him into a wood to dis∣course of almighty God, and Brother Simon so sweetly discoursed of the diuine loue, that hauing spent all the night in that holy discourse, and the breake of day alredy appearing, it seemed to them that he did but thē begin. When this Religious perceaued the comming of any diuine visi∣tation, he would cast himselfe on his bed as to sleep, or as sicke of the disease of the Espouse, who sayth in the Canticles: Tell my beloued I languish for his loue. Sometimes in the said diuine visitations he was so eleuated in God, that he remayned insensible of worldly thinges: so that a Religious once desiring to trye whiles he was in extasie, if he had any feeling, tooke a burning coale, and putt it on his bare foot, wherewith he did not only not come to himselfe, nor felt the heat of the fier, but the coale dyed on his foot, without leauing any signe of burning. The Sainct accustomed when he did eat with the Religi∣ous, to feed them spiritualy with the word of God before they recea∣ued their corporall refection.