The pious missionaries having gone through several towns, and given
great satisfaction, returned to the hut at Rivo Torto, when a fourth
disciple offered himself: his name was Sabbatin.

Morique, a religious of the Order of Crosiers, or cross-bearers, was
the fifth. Being sick, and in extremity, given over and abandoned by
the medical men of the hospital of St. Saviour of Assisi, where all
strangers were received, he got himself recommended to the prayers of
Francis, who willingly prayed for him, and mixed a little crumb of
bread with the oil of the lamp which burnt before the altar of St.
Mary of the Angels. This he sent him by two of his brethren, saying
to them: "Take this to our dear Brother Morique. The power of Jesus
Christ will not only restore him to perfect health, but will cause him
to become a generous soldier, who will enter into our militia, and
will persevere in it." The sick man had hardly swallowed the remedy
when he was quite cured, and he soon after entered the Institute of
his charitable physician, in which he lived in prodigious austerity
during a long life, and enjoyed perfect health.

A sixth disciple, called John, and surnamed De Capella, began well,
but finished ill. He was employed to distribute to his brethren what
was given to them in alms, and he took willingly the trouble of
procuring for them what was wanted. But by little and little he got
attached to temporal things, went too much abroad, and was very much
relaxed from the regular discipline. The holy founder having frequently
reprimanded him severely, and without effect, he threatened him for
his contumacy with a severe illness and a miserable death. In fact,
this unworthy religious was stricken with a horrible leprosy, which
he had not patience to endure. He forsook the poor of Jesus Christ,
his companions, and, letting himself fall into despair, he hanged