St. Francis arrived that evening at the friars' Place of Monte Casale, where there was a friar who was so cruelly sick and so horribly tortured by illness that it seemed more like a tribulation and torment of the devil than a natural sickness...When St. Francis, sitting at table, heard the friars tell about the serious and incurable sickness of this friar, St. Francis felt compassion for him. And he took a piece of bread which he was eating and made the Sign of the Cross over it with his holy stigmatized hands and sent it to the sick friar. As soon as the latter had eaten the bread, he was perfectly healed and never felt illness again.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Little Flowers of St. Francis
The Second Consideration
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