Chapter XXIX. Of his refusing to enter a cell to which his name had been put

59. He would not let the brethren live in any dwelling, even a small one, unless it were sure that there was some owner to whom the property belonged; for he always aimed at his sons' observing the laws of pilgrims — namely, to be gathered under another's roof, to pass onward peaceably, and to thirst after their native land. So even in the hermitage of Sartiano, when one brother asked another where he was coming from, and the answer was tt From brother Francis' cell," the Saint, on hearing it, replied: "Since thou hast put Francis' name to the cell, appropriating it to me, look out for another inhabitant for it, for I will not stay in it any more. The Lord (he said) when He was in the wilderness where He prayed and fasted forty days did not have a cell made there, nor any house, but abode beneath a rock of the mountain. We may follow Him in the manner enjoined by having nothing in the way of property; though we cannot live without having the use of houses."