Chapter CXIV. Of a brother whose hood he threw into the fire for having come to see him without an " obedience," though drawn by devotion to him

154. He once took off the hood of a brother who had come [to him] alone without an

"obedience," and ordered it to be thrown into a large fire. When no one rescued the hood (for they feared the father's countenance which was somewhat displeased) the Saint bade it be drawn out of the flames, and it was uninjured. Though the Saint's merits could bring this about, some merit on the part of that brother was perhaps not wanting: for eagerness to see the most holy father had constrained him, though discretion, the sole charioteer of the virtues, was not there.