"The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the… - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them."

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