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THAT MAN WHO WEPT IN FRONT OF BLESSED FRANCIS TO BE ADMITTED TO THE ORDER
At a time when no one was received into the Order without the permission of blessed Francis, the son of a nobleman from Lucca, together with many others who wished to enter the Order, came to see blessed Francis. At the time he was sick and was staying at the palace of the bishop of Assisi. When the brothers presented all of them to blessed Francis, the son of the nobleman bowed before him and began to cry aloud, begging to be received.
Looking at him, Blessed Francis said: "O wretched and fleshly man! Why are you lying to the Holy Spirit and to me? You wail in the flesh and not in the spirit!"
After he said these things, his relatives suddenly arrived outside the palace on horseback, wanting to seize him and take him away. Hearing the clatter of horses, he looked out the window and saw his relatives. He immediately got up, and went down to them. He returned to the world with them, just as blessed Francis had foreseen.
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A PRIEST'S VINEYARD THAT WAS DESPOILED OF GRAPES BECAUSE OF BLESSED FRANCIS
Because of the disease of his eyes, blessed Francis was staying with a little, poor priest in the church of San Fabiano near the city of Rieti. The Lord Pope Honorius, together with his whole court, was also staying in the city at that time. Many of the cardinals and other great clerics, because of the devotion they had for him, used to visit blessed Francis almost every day.
That church had a small vineyard next to the house where blessed Francis was staying. There was a door in that house through which nearly all those who visited him passed. Since the grapes were ripe then, and the place was very pleasant, the entire vineyard was ruined and almost stripped of its grapes.
The priest began to be offended and upset, saying: "Even though it's small, I nevertheless got enough wine from the vineyard, that I had enough wine to take care of my needs! And this year I lost it!"
When blessed Francis heard of this he had him called and said to him: "My lord, do not be disturbed any longer. We can't do anything about it now. trust in the Lord, because for me, His little servant, He