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Quotation from Early Franciscan Sources by Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others
“Brother fire," he said, "you are beautiful above all creatures; be favorable to me in this hour; you know how much I have always loved you; be then courteous to-day”
Early Franciscan Sources, Life of St. Francis, Ch. XIX, trans. Louise Seymour Houghton (1919), translating Paul Sabatier
Francis addresses the cautery instrument through the same kinship imagination that shapes the Canticle.
Citation: "Brother fire," he said, "you are beautiful above all creatures; be favorable to me in this hour; you know how much I have always loved you; be then courteous to-day" — 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-q4)
Portrait: StFrancis part, Parzi, Public domain.
