LETTER IV.
To the Blessed Virgin Clare, and her Sisters at St. Damian’s
To his beloved Sister Clare and the other Sisters of St. Damian’s, Brother Francis, health in the Lord. Since, by the divine inspiration, you have made yourselves daughters and handmaids of the most high and soveireign King, the Heavenly Father, and have taken the Holy Ghost for your Spouse, choosing to live according to the perfection of the holy Gospel, I will and promise to have always, by myself and by my brothers, a diligent care and special solicitude for you, as for them. Farewell in the Lord.