Chapter LXII. Of his devout recitation of the canonical Hours

96. He recited the canonical Hours with no less reverence than devotion. For though suffering from disease of the eyes, stomach, spleen and liver, he would never, when chanting the Psalms, lean against a wall or door-post, but always said the Hours upright and bare-headed, without letting his eyes wander, and without interruption. When going on foot through the world, he always stood still to say the Hours, and when riding, he dismounted. Thus one day when he was returning from Rome and it was raining incessantly, he dismounted from his horse to say the Office, and, as he stayed some time, he was wet through. For he used sometimes to say, "If the body eats its food in quiet, which food together with itself will become meat for worms, with what great peace and tranquillity ought the soul to take its food, which is its God?"