could not speak distinctly, and so in trying to pronounce the name of “Francesco,” he left out half of it.

¹⁴⁰ There was a young man who had been up on a very high place and fell from there and lost the use of all his limbs as well as his ability to speak. For three days he neither ate nor drank nor felt anything, so that they thought he was dead. His mother, without even seeking the aid of a doctor, asked blessed Francis to cure him. After she had made a vow the young man was restored to her, alive and sound, and she began to praise the all-powerful Savior.

Another man by the name of Mancino was so sick and so near death that everyone gave up all hope for him. But he invoked as well as he could the name of the blessed Francis and he was immediately restored to health. 

A boy from Arezzo by the name of Gualtiero was suffering from prolonged fever and so tormented by a multiple abscess that all the doctors gave up hope for him. But his parents made a vow to blessed Francis, and he recovered the health they so longed for.

Another man, who was near death, made a wax image, and before it was even finished, he was entirely relieved of his unbearable pain.^a

¹⁴¹ A woman was confined to bed for many years by illness, unable to turn or move at all. She vowed herself to God and the blessed Francis. She was freed from her illness and resumed her usual activities. In the city of Narni, there was a woman who for eight years had a hand so withered that she could not use it at all. The blessed Francis appeared to her in a vision, ^{Acts 18:9} stretching out his hand to her, and thereby made her withered hand able to work as well as her other one.

A young man in the same city was in the grip of a very serious illness for ten years; his whole body was so swollen that no medicine brought him any relief. After his mother made a vow, he received the relief of health through the merits of blessed Francis.

There was a man in the city of Fano suffering from dropsy, whose limbs were horribly swollen. Through blessed Francis he obtained a complete cure of his illness.

A citizen of Todi suffered from such an acute arthritic condition that he could neither sit nor lie down at all. The severity of the affliction grew so serious as to cause ever-increasing stiffness and it seemed he would become entirely helpless. He called doctors and took baths. He

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⁶Non enim poterat propter infantiam plene loqui, et ideo nomen beati Francisci sic loquens dimidiabat.

140 ¹Iuvenis quidam, cum in quodam loco altissimo moraretur, ex eodem loco corruens, loquelam et omnia membrorum officia perdidit.²Tribus quoque diebus non manducans, neque bibens, neque aliquid sentiens, mortuus credebatur.³Mater vero ipsius, nullorum medicorum requirens suffragium, a beato Francisco eius postulat sanitatem.⁴Et sic, voto facto, vivum eum recipiens et incolumem, laudare coepit omnipotentiam Salvatoris.

⁵Alius quidam, Mancinus nomine, infirmatus ad mortem et de liberatione sua penitus ab omnibus desperatus, invocato utcumque nomine beati Francisci, subita sanitate convaluit.

⁶Puer quidam de Aretio, Galterius nomine, continuis febribus laborans et duplici apostemate cruciatus, ab omnibus medicis desperatus, voto parentum beato Francisco exhibito, concupitae restitutus est sanitati.

—⁷Alius vero morti propinquus, facta imagine cerea, priusquam perfecta esset, ab omni passione incontinenti exstitit liberatus.

141 ¹Mulier quaedam per plures annos in lecto infirmitatis suae decubans, nec se aliquo modo valens volvere vel movere, vovit se Deo et beato Francisco, et ab omni liberata aegritudine, adimplevit necessaria officia vitae suae. —²In civitate Narniensi mulier quaedam erat, quae per octo annos manum sic habuit desiccatam, quod nihil cum ea poterat operari.³Tandem beatissimus pater Franciscus per visionem apparuit ei, et manum eius extendens in laboritio alteri adaequavit.

—⁴Iuvenis quidam, in eadem civitate, per decem annos gravissima infirmitate detentus, totus erat tumidus effectus, ita quod nulla ei prodesse poterat medicina.⁵Qui meritis beati Francisci, voto a matre sua emisso, statim, recepit commodum sanitatis.

⁶Erat in civitate Fanensi quidam hydropisis morbo detentus, cuius membra erant horribiliter tumefacta.⁷Qui per beatum Franciscum ab eadem infirmitate plene meruit liberari.

⁸Civis quidam de Tuderto in tantum gutta arthritica gravabatur, quod nec sedere poterat, nec quiescere ullo modo.⁹Tantum ei dictae passionis vehementia frigus praestabat continuum, quod totus ad nihilum redigi videbatur. ¹⁰Vocavit medicos, multiplicavit balnea, medicinas adhibuit multas,