"By such troubles, is losing all hope in this life, and all but all Hope in the next.  When in his struggle, the fear of both hits him, He knows not what to do.  He repents of an ugly past life and his tears are mixed with his sighs.  He who looks on the sigh of the heart with fatherly pity, who rejects not the crushed heart, lifts up the sick man, raises the fallen and consoles him who cries.  Gone are the slave's troubles at a nod from the Lord.  There is nothing that withstands the divine will.  At once to the heart all vital energies are mustered, on a determined day, nature with violent onslaught slays morbid symptoms, warms limbs with its heat, regulates pulse and tone to urine restores.  The sick man grows enlivened and, seeing he's emerged from a perilous crisis, he gladly praises the Doctor Above and acclaims life's Author and Lord."

The Vesified Life of Saint Francis by Henri d'Avranches

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