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Show Among the many touching incidents of Rukin's life over which Catholics love to linirer, is hia meeting with the bercrgar in Rome. He had dreamed the night before that he himself was a Franciscan friar; and, the spirit of his dream still possessing him, he kissed the beggar's cheek as he gave his customary cus-tomary alms. Moved by that sudden impulse, the poor man afterward fwught his kind patron, and, with tears in his eyes, begged; Uim to accept the most previous thing' which he could give a bit of the brown robe of St Francis a relic which no misery or need had ever before drawn from him Then Ruskin, thought of the forgotten dream. 'and shortly afterward went to visit Assisi, where many of his happiest hap-piest davs were from that time spent On Who tells the story, remarks- "I personally should like to believe 'that the? mendicant was himself St. Frances appearing in the garb of a beggar to his great disciple." |