Who Or What Is The Leper In Your Life?

The holy lover of complete humility went to the lepers and lived with them, serving them most diligently for God's sake; and washing all foulness from them, he wiped away also the corruption of the ulcers, just as he said in his Testament: "When I was in sins, it seemed extremely bitter to me to look at lepers, and the Lord himself led me among them and I practiced mercy with them." So loathsome was the sight of lepers to him at one time, he used to say, that, in days of his vanity, he would look at their houses only from a distance of two miles and he would hold his nostrils with his hands.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
CHAPTER VII

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