would be better to proceed more slowly in these matters, the Mass of the Dead was celebrated.

¹⁰Then, when the Supreme Pontiff with the group of prelates and cardinals was seated, the Bishop of Ostia, taking as his theme "Vanity of vanities," ^{Eccl 1:2} eulogized this outstanding woman, contemptuous of vanity, in a celebrated sermon.

48. ¹¹The Cardinal priests then gathered with devout respect for the holy funeral and completed the customary rites over the body of the virgin. ¹²Finally, because they did not judge it safe or fitting to leave such a precious trust so far from the citizens, they carried it with hymns and [songs of] praise, the sound of trumpets and solemn rejoicing, and brought it honorably to San Giorgio.

¹³This is also the site
where the body of the holy Father Francis was buried
so that he who had prepared the way of life while she lived
also prepared—as if by foreknowledge—the place for
her death.
¹⁴Afterward a gathering of many peoples came to the tomb
of the virgin
praising God and saying: ^{Lk 2:13
15}"Truly holy, truly gloriously,
she reigns with the angels,
she who has received such honor from all on earth.
¹⁶First among the poor ladies
who has led untold numbers to penance,
untold numbers to life,
intercede with Christ for us !"
¹⁷After a few days,
Agnes, called to the wedding feast of the Lamb,
followed her sister to the eternal delights
¹⁸where both daughters of Sion,
sisters by nature, grace, and the Kingdom,
rejoice in God without end.
¹⁹And in fact,
Agnes received that consolation
which Clare had promised her
before she departed.

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⁸Respondente viro eminentissimo domino Ostiense, morosius in his fore agendum missa de mortuis celebratur.

⁹Confidente postmodum summo Pontifice, Cardinalium quoque et praelatorum coetu, Ostiensis Episcopus de vanitate vanitatum sumpta dicendi materia, vanitatis egregiam contemptricem nobili sermone commendat.

48 ¹Circumdant illico sanctum funus devota dignatione presbyteri Cardinales, et circa Virginis corpus solita officia complent.²Tandem quia nec tutum censent, nec dignum, ut tam pretiosum pignus tam longe distet a civibus, levatur cum hymnis et laudibus, cum tubarum clangore ac iubilatione solemni, et ad S. Georgium honorifice deportatur:

³nam et hic locus est ille,
ubi sancti Patris Francisci corpus primo conditum fuerat;
ut qui viam vitae viventi paraverat
etiam morienti locum quodam praesagio
praepararet.
⁴Factus est proinde concursus populorum multorum ad tumulum
Virginis,
laudantium Deum atque dicentium:
⁵Vere sancta,
vere gloriosa
regnat cum angelis,
quae tantum ab hominibus honorem sumit in terris.
⁶Intercede pro nobis ad Christum
primiceria pauperum dominarum,
quae innumeros ad paenitentiam,
innumeros conduxisti ad vitam.
⁷Paucis interiectis diebus,
Agnes ad Agni nuptias evocata,
sororem Claram ad aeternas delicias subsecuta est:
⁸ubi ambae Sion filiae,
natura, gratia et regno germanae,
et Deo iubilant sine fine.
⁹Et vero
consolationem illam,
quam Clara promisit Agneti,
antequam migraret accepit.