CHAPTER XI THE CARE OF THE SOUL
“The brothers and sisters must pray continually, or be engaged in work, that the devil may not find them with nothing to do.”
(Statutes of St. Mary’s, Chichester.)
THE daily life in a hospital was essentially a religious life. From warden to pauper, all were expected to pay strict attention to the faith and give themselves to devotion. “The brethren and sisters serving God” were fully occupied with prayer and work. “A representation of a mediæval hospital shows the double hall, the priest is administering the last rites of the Church to one patient, the sisters are sewing up the body of another just dead, mass is being sung at the altar, a visitor is kneeling in prayer.”[99]