The man was a friar who followed the mode of St. Francis, up to and including practicing his sermons on cats. His former occupation was the same as his flock: pirate. Once, he had been a terrible man, as terrible as my mortal days. But he had the courage to go against all of that, even knowing what everyone would think, and that he would likely die penniless and possibly done in by the violence he had renounced. He still preached and did his work with dedication and competence, in spite of the risks and occasional doubts about whether he was morally clean enough to preach.
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The man was a friar who followed the mode of St. Francis, up to and including practicing his sermons on cats. His former occupation was the same as his flock: pirate. Once, he had been a terrible man, as terrible as my mortal days. But he had the courage to go against all of that, even knowing what everyone would think, and that he would likely die penniless and possibly done in by the violence he had renounced. He still preached and did his work with dedication and competence, in spite of the risks and occasional doubts about whether he was morally clean enough to preach.