conformity to the will of God--Jesus Christ crucified appears to him under the figure of a Seraphim--Receives the impression of the wounds of Jesus Christ--He composes canticles full of the love of God--Tells his brethren of the Stigmata--They are seen and touched--He leaves Mount Alvernus, to return to S. Mary of the Angels--Cures a child of dropsy--Other miracles which he performed on the way--He strengthens himself with new fervor in the service of God--His patience in great sufferings--His desires for the salvation of souls--His prayer in suffering--God assures him of his salvation--He thanks Him in a canticle--He learns the time of his death, and rejoices at it--He has various illnesses, and suffers extreme pain--He multiplies the grapes in a vineyard--God gives him sensible consolation--A heated iron is applied to the temple, and he feels no pain from it--He weeps incessantly, and says he does so to expiate for his sins--He prefers the danger of losing his sight to restraining his tears--His gratitude towards his physician--A miracle is worked by some of his hair, in favor of this physician--He miraculously heals a canon--His sufferings diminish--Goes to preach--Drives away a devil--Foretells a sudden death, and it comes about--Cures St. Bonaventura in his infancy--All his sufferings increase--Causes to be found for the love of God what could not be found for money--They take him back to Assisi--They take him to Sienna--He answers difficult questions, and foretells several things--He causes the blessing which he gave to his brethren to be written--They take him to Celles, and thence to Assisi--The bishop has him taken to his palace--The state of his Order at the time of his last illness BOOK V