Saint Francis, beholding brother Giles perfect in grace and virtue, and ready for every good work, loved him deeply, and would sometimes say of him to the other brethren, 'That is my knight of the Round Table.' And when brother Giles asked him what he would have him do, and whither he would have him go, Saint Francis answered: 'Your seat is prepared, go wherever you will.'
And so for four days he went about freely; but his spirit could not find rest in such liberty, so he came back to Saint Francis and said: 'Father, send me where you will, for my conscience cannot find rest in such free obedience.' And Saint Francis sent him to the hermitage of Fabriano.
He went barefoot, clad in his tunic only, in the depth of winter, and a man who met him said: 'I would not go as you are going, if I knew that I should enter paradise forthwith for doing it!' At which word the tempter made him feel such cold that he was almost dying. But in his distress he bethought him how the Lord Jesus went about barefoot and poor; and, being warmed by such meditation, he praised the Almighty who had so quickly filled him with His heat apart from material fire.
- text taken from Franciscan Days: being selections for every day in the year from ancient Franciscan writings, translated and arranged by Alan George Ferrers Howell