Chapter CIX. How he Foretold that his Body would be Honoured after his Death

ON a certain day when he was lying ailing in the Bishop's palace at Assisi, a certain spiritually-minded friar said to him, as if in sport, and smiling, "For how much wouldst thou sell to the Lord all thy sackcloths? Many baldachinos and silken palls shall be placed over this little body of thine, which now is clothed with sackcloth." For then he was bandaged with sack cloth, and had a garment also of sackcloth. And blessed Francis answered (but not he but the Holy Spirit through him) and said, with great fervour and joy of spirit, "Thou sayest truth, since so it will be for the praise and grace of my God."