Friday, July 02, 2010
St. Francis of Assisi
Speculum Perfectionis (The Mirror of Perfection) 12.118, tr. by ? in Regis J. Armstrong et al., edd., Francis of Assisi: Early Documents (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University, 2001), p. 366:
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He also told the brother who cut and prepared the wood for the fire never to cut down the whole tree, but to cut the tree in such a way that one part always remained intact out of love for Him Who willed to accomplish our salvation on the wood of the cross.Latin from the edition by Paul Sabatier (Paris: Fischbacher, 1898), pp. 231-232:
Fratri etiam qui faciebat et parabat ligna pro igne dicebat ut nunquam totam arborem incideret ut talis arboris semper aliqua pars remaneret integra amore illius qui salutem nostram in ligno crucis voluit operari.Thomas of Celano, The Lives of S. Francis of Assisi, 2.124.165, tr. A.G. Ferrers Howell (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), p. 297:
When the brethren were cutting wood he forbad them to cut down a whole tree, so that it might have hope of sprouting again.Latin from S. Francisci Assisiensis Vita et Miracula ... auctore Fr. Thoma de Celano, ed. P. Eduardus Alenconiensis (Rome: Desclée, Lefebvre et Soc., 1906), p. 294:
Ligna caedentes fratres prohibet totam succidere arborem, ut spem habeat iterum pullulandi.
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