CHAPTER II.

That the necessities of the body should be disregarded.
Of the advantages of poverty.

1. Nuns should leave the care of their health to Christ. 2. Perpetual poverty to
be maintained in the Order. 3. Safeguards against loss of poverty of spirit.
4. Advantages of poverty. 5. Honours and riches are opposed to poverty.
6. Poverty always the badge of the Carmelite Order. 7. The convents,
though poor, may possess hermitages. 8. Intercession to be made for
benefactors.