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Quotation from Early Franciscan Sources by Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others
“The doctors, having exhausted the therapeutic arsenal of the time, decided to resort to cauterization; it was decided to draw a rod of white-hot iron across his forehead”
Early Franciscan Sources, Life of St. Francis, Ch. XIX, trans. Louise Seymour Houghton (1919), translating Paul Sabatier
The episode places Francis's eye disease inside medieval therapeutic practice and hagiographic endurance.
Citation: "The doctors, having exhausted the therapeutic arsenal of the time, decided to resort to cauterization; it was decided to draw a rod of white-hot iron across his forehead" — Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others, Early Franciscan Sources, Life of St. Francis, Ch. XIX, trans. Louise Seymour Houghton (1919), translating Paul Sabatier. (id early-franciscan-sources-q3)
Portrait: StFrancis part, Parzi, Public domain.
