Chapter LVI. How by the gift of a cloak he induced a man to cease from hating his lord

89. At Colle, in the territory of Perugia, S. Francis once found a poor man whom he had known in former days in the world, and said to him: "Brother, how art thou? "But the other began angrily to heap curses on his lord, who had taken away al¹ his goods, saying: "Thanks to my lord, whom the Lord Almighty curse, I am but in a bad way". S. Francis, pitying him in soul more than in body, because he was persisting in mortal hatred, said to him: "Brother, forgive thy lord for the love of God, that thou may est deliver thy soul, and it may be that he will restore thee what he has taken. Otherwise, having lost thy property, thou wilt lose thy soul as well." "I cannot forgive him entirely," said the man, "unless he first restore what he has taken away." Then S. Francis, having a cloak on his back, said: "See, I give thee this cloak, and I entreat thee for the love of the Lord God to forgive thy lord". Forthwith the man's heart was softened, and, moved by this act of kindness, he took the gift and forgave the wrongs he had suffered.