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This work is organized as a daily devotional. For each day the lives of that day's saints are told and devotional images and reflections presented. The text for the lives is drawn primarily from the old edition of Butler's lives.

preaching to the multitudes, now amid desert solitudes in fasting and contemplation. During one of these retreats he received on his hands, feet, and side the print of the five bleeding wounds of Jesus. With the cry, “Welcome, sister Death,” he passed to the glory of his God October 4th, 1226. REFLECTION.—“My God and my all,” St. Francis’s constant prayer, explains both his poverty and his wealth.