Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.

There was no woman in the Upper Chamber when, on the last evening of his life, Jesus communed with his disciples and invited the world to the eternal marriage supper.
Francis, above all, was impatient to see his young family once more.
They all arrived at Portiuncula almost at the same time, having already, before reaching it, forgotten the torments they had endured, thinking only of the joy of the meeting.[17] FOOTNOTES: [1] 1 Cel., 23; 3 Soc., 25 and 26; Bon., 27.Cf._Auct.

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[2] 1 Cel., 24.