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 1 2      |       kind confessor of Christ, Francis, which sprouting the sprout7
 2 2(9)   |      Jacob had twelve sons; St. Francis had twelve first disciples.
 3 2(9)   |      disciples. Like Jacob, St. Francis blessed their sons at death;
 4 2(9)   |       at death; like Jacob, St. Francis is called a "patriarch"
 5 2(9)   |     Judah (Gen 49:8-10), so St. Francis exhorted his sons to the
 6 2      |      the Holy Spirit to blessed Francis, and having inspired those
 7 2(16)  |        stigmata received by St. Francis, Sept. 14, 1224 A.D., which
 8 3(21)  |         to perfection which St. Francis included in his Rule. ~
 9 5      |       holy intention of blessed Francis himself; and later as a
10 6      |       word came forth from him (Francis) and at the same time with
11 6      |     patently clear that blessed Francis had the same understanding
12 18     | semblance of truth that blessed Francis the institutor of the rule
13 23     |       was given, [when] blessed Francis [was] still living, is believed
14 [Title]|         of the Testament of St. Francis~
15 24     |                    24. Moreover Francis, the confessor of Christ,