Intoxicated with love and compassion for Christ, blessed Francis sometimes used to act in a way like these. For the sweetest of spiritual melodies would often well up within him and found expression in French melodies, and the murmors of God's voice, heard by him alone, would joyfully pour forth in the French tongue.
Sometimes he would pick up a stick from the ground, and laying it on his left arm, he would draw another stick across it with his right hand like a bow, as though he were playing a viol or some other instrument; and he would imitate the movements of a musician and sing in French of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Mirror of Perfection - 93
Monday, February 23, 2009
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