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THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EVANGELICAL POVERTY

"This is the sublimity of most high Poverty which has made you, beloved brethren, heirs and kings of the Kingdom of Heaven." Thus wrote St Francis of Assisi when he gave his disciples the Rule which obliged them to "serve the Lord in poverty and humility." It is