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HOW THE BLESSED FRANCIS MADE DILIGENT SEARCH FOR THE LADY POVERTY

Wherefore the Blessed Francis, as a true Follower and Disciple of the Saviour, gave himself up from the beginning of his Conversion with all his Heart, with all his Strength, and with all his Mind, to seek and to find, to have and to hold the Lady Poverty, dreading no