Chapter XXI. Of that same brother, whose desire he fulfilled by giving him his tunic

50. Another thing was wondrously done for that same brother by the holy father: for while he lay sick in the palace at Assisi the said brother said to himself: "The father's death is approaching, and my soul would be exceedingly comforted if I might have my father's tunic after his death". As though his heart's desire had been his mouth's request, blessed Francis called him after a little while and said: "I make over to thee this tunic, accept it, that it may henceforth be thine. And though I wear it while I am alive, yet be it thine at my death." That brother wondered at the father's insight and was comforted at last by receiving the tunic: and afterwards holy devotion carried it into France.¹