[Scriptum compendiosum Psalterii intentionem declarans]

whatever time arrived, it would by no means be removed. For it was fitting that where the spirit of the true God, at the time of his access to the Mother of God original: "Theotocos", was accustomed to be sublimated with the star as witness, there his body should remain for the eternal memory of his merits. But for the more evident manifestation of divine piety, it was brought to pass that after his death, for many years on the day of his passing, while a multitude of people gathered to his venerable body awaiting a remedy for health, and neither before nor after, the star was seen by men wishing to perceive it, moving directly over his tomb, as if it were not moving itself, so that it might be understood that the blessed Nicholas not only shines with miracles on earth but also rejoices in eternal rewards in heaven.

There was also another brother of great devotion to God and his saints, who was so devoted to the feasts of Christ that he had every one of his feasts depicted individually on a chart. And as long as each feast lasted, he let the chart of that feast hang, which he had hung on the wall of his cell at the beginning of that feast, and by sitting before it and inspecting it devoutly, he would pray, groan, and weep. He was also so devoted to the feasts of the Blessed Virgin that he would undertake each of her feasts some days before,

by saying the "Hail Mary." He was especially devoted to the feast of All Saints, so that he prepared himself to receive their feast for one week beforehand with fasts and punishments. And for eight days he would perform it with diligent devotion in honor of all the saints. Furthermore, he was so devoted in his masses that he was much burdened if the server or any other person stood where he could see his face, because tears flowed from his eyes, with which he abundantly irrigated his cheeks, which he wished to be hidden from men. This man, because he was devoted to the saints, passed away to the Lord on the day of All Saints. After some weeks, he appeared in a dream to a certain devout brother, beautiful and pleasant, judging himself happily joined to the college of the saints. This is about the fourth.

Fifth and finally, it must be seen concerning the constancy of prayer and its being heard. For it must be an insistent prayer, where our teacher does not say simply "pray," but says, "be insistent in prayers." For one must not desist on account of this if the tumult of disturbing thoughts keeps the mind from prayer, or if God does not hear immediately, but there is perseverance by insisting, praying, and knocking until