# Digest whorl.v007.n026 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Oct 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Tony Zbaraschuk *02 Oct 1997, 15:33* Something that I didn't see _at all_ in the archives when I went through them (I just got onto the list): St. Francis of Assisi, early in his career, had a vision telling him to "rebuild my church", and spent a while, first trying to beg stones from passer-by, and then actually working himself on rebuilding an old and decayed church building, before he figured out that what God wanted was a _spiritual_ reform, which become the Franciscan Order. (There's a fair amount about this in G. K. Chesterton's biography of Francis.) The thought crossed my mind shortly after Silk started talking about how the Outsider wanted him to "save the manteion": "Boy, Silk, are YOU in for a surprise; the Outsider wants something much, much larger." Tony Z Special Collections Librarian & Archivist E-mail: tzbarasc at lasierra.edu La Sierra University Et vocavit Deus, "Fiat lux!" ---