How a Lawyer by occasion of a vaine word entred into the Religion of sainct Francis.
THE XXXV. CHAPTER.
BRother Iohn Parent who was the first Minister Generall after S. Francis, entred into that Order in the time of the sayd sainct. Li∣uing in the world, he was a Doctour of law and Iudge de Ciui∣tate Castellana of the Prouince of Rome whence he was natiue. Being one euening att a window of his house and attentiuely beholding the trouble a s••vineheard had to make his hogges enter into a stable, he heard a companion of the swineheards say vnto him: If thou wilt make them enter, say these wordes: Hogges, hogges enter ye into the stable as La∣wyers and Iudges enter into hell. Which the swineheard hauing sayd, the hogges without any noyse incontinently hastened into the stable, and were no more troublesome to their guide. The Iudge perceauing this, touched with an extreme feare of the iustice of God, incontinently reiected his office, and became a Frere Minor, and one of his sonnes, with him, and spent his life most exemplarly in that Order, in prayers & teares, and so austere in penance, that being Minister Generall, he visited all the Order barefoot: so did he gather so much profitt touching the good of his soule, euen of a vaine word.