St. Francis Swept And Cleaned The Churches He Visited

Thanks to Fra Martin (L) St. Andrew's Church is always
"So clean, you could eat off the floor!"

Once blessed Francis went to a village church in the neighborhood of Assisi, and humbly began to sweep and clean it. A report of what he was doing immediately spread through the whole village, for the people were always happy to see him and even more happy to listen to him. But when a peasant named John, a man of wonderful simplicity, heard about it as he was plowing his field, he went to him at once and found him humbly and devoutly sweeping the church. And he said to him, "Brother, give me the broom; I would like to help you." And taking the broom from his hands, he swept the rest of the church.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Mirror of Perfection - 57

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