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Their assistance was not limited to present relief: the good

bishop requested them, wherever it was possible, to furnish more

efficacious and permanent comfort, by giving to those who should

be in some measure restored to strength money for their future

necessities, lest returning want should again plunge them into

wretchedness and misery; and to obtain shelter for others who lay

exposed in the street in the neighbouring houses, by requesting

their inhabitants to receive the poor afflicted ones as boarders,

whose expenses would be paid by the cardinal himself.