Chapter 27 SAINT CYPRIAN'S CELL

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch' entrate.

Dante.

Cyprian de Mulverton, fifth prior of the monastery of Saint Francis, a prelate of singular sanctity, being afflicted, in his latter days, with a despondency so deep that neither penance nor fasting could remove it, vowed never again to behold, with earthly eyes, the blessed light of heaven, nor t