ra Giovanni was one day sent to a certain city. Having passed the Gate, he went up and down the s

before their shop-doors, repulsed the poor man of Jesus Christ with harsh words. Even the young women, holding their new-born babes in the

y rather a vagabond impostor and a drunkard. He has over-drunk himself with wine.

od Brother

rthy to stir your pity, nor fit to sha

g out of school, overheard what was sa

-and pelted him w

He descended the hill by a hollow way, and seeing on either side the grapes of the vines that hung down from the branches of the elms, h

and thirsty; and he took d

o go and pray in the woods, amongst the poor animals cruel men hunt and harry. Accordingly Fra Gio

same moment a young man of a wondrous beauty, clad in a whi

i knelt down an

ead by the hand of one of Thy Angels; O blessed po

the brook, and was strengthened in body and in soul. And an invi