The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence (of the Resurrection) III

He could read and mentioned some of the books he read in addition to the spiritual reading of the Divine Office, Holy Mass in Latin, and other required texts of the Carmelites at that time (ToA, John of the Cross)

Assigned to the kitchen but due to limpness perhaps from a battle (which would degrade into an ulcer causing him great suffering through his life) would he was assigned to sandal making, 200 sandals of the Discalced Carmelites
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