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San Francisco de Asis and the.. miracle of the fountain..English.27,2.23

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On a certain occasion Francisco wanted to move to the hermitage on Mount Alverna to dedicate himself there more freely to contemplation; but, as he was already very weak, he was carried away in the donkey of a poor peasant. It was a hot summer day. The man was going up the mountain following the servant of Christ, and, tired by the rough and long walk, he felt faint from burning thirst. In this he began to shout insistently behind the Saint: «Hey, I’m dying of thirst, I’m dying if I don’t immediately have something to drink for refreshment!»

Without delay, the man of God got off the donkey, and kneeling on the ground and raising his hands to heaven, he did not stop praying until he understood that he had been heard. Finished the prayer, he said to the man: «Run to that rock and you will find there living water, which Christ has mercifully taken out of the stone for you to drink at this moment».

What a stupendous contempt for God, who so easily condescends to the desires of his servants! The thirsty man drank the water that spouted from the stone by virtue of the Saint’s prayer and extracted the liquid from a very hard rock. There was no stream there before; nor, for more diligences that have been made, has it been possible to find it later.