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THE LIFE OF

and a comforter: in his ordinary speech he was not fawning, nor biting, and his conversation without any pertinacity : and to conclude all in a few words : he was a man of another world, of whom we may justly say as* Alexander Halensis said of St. Bonaventure, that he was a man, in whom Adam seemed not to have sinned. He was a reformer, Prelate, Master, and pattern of perfection, of the Seraphical Order of our Holy Father St. Francis, who through so many provinces and remote kingdoms, illustrated this sacred institution ; as another Apostle pre-ordained by Almighty God for this happy end.

* Antonius Possevinus in sacro apparatu de scripto- ribus Eccles. torn. 1. de D. Bonavent.