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 easy to recognise in these words the note of exultation and achievement which made St Francis the most inspiring personality in Mediæval Christendom, and which gives to his name, even to-day, a singular power over the imagination of the Christian World. Clad in his peasant's dress, and with no possessions of his own in the world save his soul and body, he is nevertheless the man rich in all things that