Francesco was not born ordinarily to his worldly parents ... he was, rather more or less, delivered.
This had happened one early morning, whilst his father, Pietro, had been absent, journeying the faraway lands to purchase materials for his trade.
The fairies had brought their treasured fay-child secretly into his house, leaving the magical baby for his wife Pica, to find in the morning - laying the infant within the old crib propped at the fireside that had been used formally to store the household kindle.
In the brisk chill of dawn, Pica had gone to the basket for the bracken and twill, to find there instead a linen draped babe, swaddled on goose down, sleeping soundly beside the yawning grate.
-Gabriel Brunsdon - AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances
Thus it is quite true that before the birth of Francis of Assisi quite a number of persons knew through revelation that an important personality was about to be born. Historical records show that one of the many people who dreamt — that is, who saw in prophetic vision — that an important personality was about to be born, was Saint Hildegarde. At this point I must emphasise once more the truth of these facts, which can be corroborated by investigations into the Akashic Record. She dreamt that there appeared to her a woman whose face was smeared and covered with blood, and this woman said to her: "The birds have their nests here upon earth, the foxes too have their holes, but at the present time I have nothing, not even a stick upon which I can lean." When Hildegarde awakened from this dream, she knew this personality represented the true form of Christianity. And many other persons dreamt in a similar manner. From the knowledge at their disposal they saw that the outer order and institution of the church was unfitted to be a receptacle, a covering, for the true Christianity.
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