From A Hovel One Ascends More Quickly To Heaven

Sanctuario di Rivotorto, Tugurio, Italy

Blessed Francis betook himself with the rest of his brothers to a place near Assisi called Rivo Torto. In that place there was a certain abandoned hovel in the shelter of which these most ardent dispisers of great and beautiful homes lived; and there they kept themselves safe from the rains. For, as a certain saint said, from a hovel one ascends more quickly to heaven than from a palace.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, First Life
CHAPTER XVI

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