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Excerpt from The Seraphic Keepsake: A Talisman Against Temptation Written for Brother Leo Brother leo, whose portrait forms my frontispiece, joined Saint Francis of Assisi after the first approbation of his Institute by Pope Innocent III. In the year of our Lord 1210. It is just possible that he had been with his Master some time before, tending the lepers in Rivo Torto, where first the Order of Friars Minor took form and substance. In any case, Brothers Leo, Bernard, Giles, and Silvester were with Saint Francis when he went to Rome. It is but an accident that Dante fails to men tion the pecorella di Dio God's little sheep - as one of the Seraphic Father's family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.