Many Women saved from the Reproductive problems. A certain Countess in Sclavonia, illustrious for her birth, and an imitator of the virtues of St. Francis, was full of devotion towards him, and of great piety and charity towards his whole Order. Having come once upon a time to the hour of her delivery, she endured such terrible and grievous pains,

Of many Blind who were Restored to Sight. In the convent of the Friars Minor, at Naples, there was a certain friar named Robert, who had been many years blind, and there had lately grown over his eyes a superfluity of flesh, which hindered the motion and use of the eyelids. Now, many foreign friars came to this place, being

Many saved from Various Infirmities. At a place called Pieve, there was a poor beggar- boy who had been deaf and dumb from his birth, and whose tongue was so short that those who examined his mouth thought that it must have been even cut off. A certain man, named Mark, received him into his house for the love of

Of some who observed not the St. Francis Feast and paid him not due Honour. In a place called Simo, in the neighbourhood of Pavia, there was a priest called Reginald, who was very devout to St. Francis, and exhorted his parishioners to keep his Feast with great solemnity. But one of the people being ignorant of the virtues of