Francis and Anthony

People walked days to hear me preach and in such numbers that I often spoke outdoors.

Francis loved to sing. It freed his spirit and turned the human voice, so often an organ of selfishness and sin, into an instrument of celebration.

Anthony traveled tirelessly in both northern Italy and southern France, choosing to enter the cities where the heretics were strongest.

When I once preached on the wedding feast at Cana, I suggested that the six stone jars had a moral interpretation: six ways to purify the soul.

Forget your cell, your cave, your place of prayer and be where you are—and in no other place.