Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Second Life
CHAPTER CXXXVIII
Friday, July 11, 2008
Of Detraction
Once, when Francis heard a certain brother blacken the reputation of another, he turned to Brother Peter of Catana, the vicar, and spoke this terrible sentence: "Disaster confronts the order, unless these slanderers are checked. Quickly the sweetest savor of the many begins to take on a horrible stench, unless the mouths of the stinking are closed."
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