sufferings--His desires for the salvation of souls--His prayer in
suffering--God assures him of his salvation--He thanks Him in a
canticle--He learns the time of his death, and rejoices at it--He has
various illnesses, and suffers extreme pain--He multiplies the grapes
in a vineyard--God gives him sensible consolation--A heated iron is
applied to the temple, and he feels no pain from it--He weeps
incessantly, and says he does so to expiate for his sins--He prefers
the danger of losing his sight to restraining his tears--His gratitude
towards his physician--A miracle is worked by some of his hair, in
favor of this physician--He miraculously heals a canon--His sufferings
diminish--Goes to preach--Drives away a devil--Foretells a sudden
death, and it comes about--Cures St. Bonaventura in his infancy--All
his sufferings increase--Causes to be found for the love of God what
could not be found for money--They take him back to Assisi--They take
him to Sienna--He answers difficult questions, and foretells several
things--He causes the blessing which he gave to his brethren to be
written--They take him to Celles, and thence to Assisi--The bishop has
him taken to his palace--The state of his Order at the time of his
last illness



BOOK V


The violence of his illness does not prevent him from exhorting his
brethren--He is touched at the fatigue which his illness caused them--
Thanks God for the pains he suffered--Dictates a letter to Clare and
her daughters--Rejoices and thanks God for his approaching
death--Blesses his children--Has himself carried to S. Mary of the