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“He embraced the mother of the Lord Jesus with an indescribable love because she had made the Lord of Majesty our brother and because through her we have obtained mercy. After Christ he put all his trust in her and made her his advocate and that of his friars. In her honor he used to fast with great devotion from the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul to the feast of the Assumption. He was joined in a bond of inseparable love to the angels who burn with a marvelous fire to be rapt out of themselves into God and to inflame the souls of the elect. Out of devotion to the angels he used to spend the forty days after the Assumption of the glorious Virgin in fasting and continual prayer. Because of the ardent zeal he had for the salvation of all, he was devoted with a special love to blessed Michael the Archangel in view of his ministry of presenting souls to God.”