The Miracle Of Pentecost Renewed

At one time that wonderful vessel of the Holy Spirit, St. Anthony of Padua, one of the chosen followers and companions of St. Francis, whom St. Francis used to call his bishop, was preaching before the Pope and Cardinals in a consistory where there were men from different countries - Greeks and Latins, French and Germans, Slavs and English - and men of many other different languages and idioms. And being inflamed by the Holy Spirit, subtly, clearly, and understandably that all who were assembled at that consistory - although they spoke different languages, clearly and distinctly heard and understood every one of his words as if he had soken in each of their languages. Therefore they were all astounded and filled with devotion, for it seemed to them that the former miracle of the Apostles at the time of Pentecost had been renewed, when by the power of the Holy Spirit they spoke in different languages.

Saint Francis of Assisi
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