On a certain day the Gospel was read in the church, how the Lord sent his disciples out to preach...Francis immediately put off his shoes from his feet, put aside the staff from his hands, was content with one tunic, and exchanged his leather girdle for a small cord. He designed for himself a tunic that bore a likeness to the cross, that by means of it he might beat off all temptation of the devil; he designed a very rough tunic so that by it he might crucify the flesh with all its vices and sins; he designed a very poor tunic, one that would not excite the covetousness of the world.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
CHAPTER IX
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