Chapter III. A similar case. Against singularity

29. A similar case was that of another brother named Thomas of Spoleto. The entire belief and fixed idea of all was that he was a saint: but his apostasy proved at length the truth of the holy father's judgment that he was wicked. He did not long continue [in the Order] because virtue sought by fraud is not lasting; but left it and died outside it. Now he knows what-he did.