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that he would purchase the pearl of the Gospel life,
selling and giving away all he had
for the sake of Christ.a
- This passage echoes an autobiographical comment in Bonaventure’s Letter in Response to an Unknown Master, 13: "I confess before God that what made me love Saint Francis’s way of life so much was that it is exactly like the origin and the perfection of the Church itself, which began first with simple fishermen and afterwards developed to include the most illustrious and learned doctors. You will find the same thing in the Order of Saint Francis; in this way God reveals that it did not come about through human calculations but through Christ." "A Letter in Response to an Unknown Master," in Works of Saint Bonaventure: Writings Concerning the Franciscan Order, introduction and translation by Dominic Monti (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1994), 54.