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 cloth, nor knife nor dish, nor table, nor house; neither have we servant nor maid to wait upon us." Then said the Saint: "And this is the very reason why I look upon it as a great treasure, because man has no hand in it, but all has been given us by Divine Providence, as we clearly see in this bread of charity, in this beautiful table of stone, and in this clear fountain." Surely here we find the very apotheosis of poverty; of the poverty which,