The Life And Legend Of The Lady Saint Clare PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...there that they would depart, and for God's sake to leave this battle, and that they would suffer her to care for her sister Agnes, who lay all disarrayed upon the ground. So they departed with great distress of mind. And the gentle Agnes arose right gladly and went with her dear and much-loved sister, taking great joy in this first battle that she had endured for Jesus Christ. And from then onward she set herself to serve God perfectly. And St. Francis presented her for the service of God, both her and her sister Clare. And because in a few words we cannot recount the perfection of the sweet Agnes, let us tell more of the life of St. Clare. How she drove the Devil out of the Body of a Woman. It was no marvel that the prayers of St. Clare were strong and valiant against the malice of men, if they were so valiant and powerful as to turn devils. For there was once a devout woman at the Bishop's house who came to the place of the Ladies to give thanks to God and to St. Clare, for she had been delivered by the merits of St. Clare, and when the devils fled, they said that the prayers of St. Clare burnt them, and because of them they could not remain in that place. Gregory the Pope had great faith in, and great devotion to, these prayers, and it was not without reason, for he had felt and proved the virtue that was in St. Clare. When he was in any need or great necessity, when he was Pope, he sent at once his letters to St. Clare and requested her to pray for him.1 And at once he felt comforted and consoled. Thus the Vicar of Christ in his humility had such devotion to this St. Clare that he recommended himself to and requested the help of her prayers. Truly we should follow the devotion of such a man, for he knew the power of love, and how...