Vulgar words in Life of St. Francis of Assisi (Page 1)
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[6] As to the priests, they bent all their powers to accumulate benefices, and secure inheritances from the dying, stooping to the most despicable measures for providing for their bastards.
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The King of Kings has told me that he will provide for all the sons which he may have of me, for if he sustains bastards, how much more his legitimate sons.
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They were engaged in prayer one day, when a peasant appeared with an ass, which he noisily drove before him into the poor shelter.
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The latter was stupefied on hearing Francis command the guilty one to eat a lump of ass's dung which lay there, adding: "The mouth which has distilled the venom of hatred against my brother must eat this excrement."
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Mounted upon an ass, he was going on his way, followed by Brother Leonard of Assisi, when a passing glance showed him what was passing in his companion's mind.
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But soon overcome by Francis's preaching, he took himself to task, distributed all his superfluity to the poor, and kept nothing but his house with a small garden and one ass.
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The knight had prepared a stable with straw, and brought an ox and an ass, whose breath seemed to give warmth to the poor _bambino_, benumbed with the cold.
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[6] They had been two days on the road when it became necessary to seek for an ass for Francis, who was too much enfeebled to go farther on foot.
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Nothing could check him, neither suffering nor the entreaties of the Brothers; seated on an ass he would sometimes go over three or four villages in one day.
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Did he sometimes think of the contrast between these honors offered to his body, which he picturesquely called Brother Ass, and the subversion of his ideal?