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 with what he had a right to consider his own. Pietro Bernardone, his father, foresaw commercial ruin from such a course, and when he found that Francis was indissolubly wedded to his ideal, promptly disinherited him. Henceforth Francis was without house or property of his own. With the keenness of a soul set free, he at once recognised in his father's act of disinheritance the charter of his spiritual freedom. "Now in truth can I say: Our Father Who art in Heaven!" Heaven and