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 1 1 |     paying public honours to St. Francis of Assisi will likewise
 2 2 |         revive the memory of St. Francis. Nor is the field whereon
 3 2 |      earth, wherever the name of Francis has become known and his
 4 3 |         from Our youth to admire Francis of Assisi and to pay him
 5 4 |   honours in preparation for St. Francis will be especially pleasing
 6 5 | testimony of Our devotion to St. Francis, but that they should, moreover,
 7 7 |        few subsequent years; St. Francis was the agent in this great
 8 9 |        this century appeared St. Francis. Yet with wondrous resolution
 9 10|         the grace granted to St. Francis, whom God was guiding to
10 12|      penetrated the heart of St. Francis, and urged him to propagate
11 15|          it so happened that St. Francis was born in a stable; a
12 15|         Christ and His Apostles, Francis united with himself some
13 16|   hundreds of years. One day St. Francis was absorbed in ardent contemplation
14 16|     virtue emanated: at once St. Francis feels his hands and feet
15 17|  super-human voice that bade St. Francis, when near the church of
16 17|        it seemed to him that St. Francis was supporting on his shoulders
17 17|          they signified that St. Francis was to be in those times
18 19|         multitude flocked to St. Francis. Wherever he went he was
19 21|          in great measure to St. Francis that Europe owes their preservation.~
20 22|     Italy, however, owes more to Francis than any other nation whatever;
21 22| posterity. We owe to the mind of Francis that a certain breath and
22 22|     artists. Dante even found in Francis matter for his grand and
23 23|         in the institutes of St. Francis, if only they are brought
24 25|      power, aim at imitating St. Francis of Assisi; therefore, as
25 25|      upon the Third Order of St. Francis, so now, being called by
26 25|  themselves into the arms of St. Francis himself with a holy emulation.~
27 26|          greater devotion to St. Francis, and also a greater gratitude.
28 26|       grace, in united prayer to Francis himself; let Us implore