"The table of the poor rejoices at this sight, and , the cheap food is put away, the delicacies are eaten today.  The doctor heaved a sigh and spoke to them:  'Neither you, brothers, as you should, nor we lay people, realize the holiness of this man.'  They  would not have been sufficiently filled if the miracle had not fed them even more than the food.  A father's eye never looks down on his own, but rather feeds beggars with greater care the needier they are."

The Treatise on the Miracles of Saint Francis by Thomas of Celano

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