ABSTRACT
When he was dying, a certain old man commanded of his son that he not forget the poor. So on Easter Sunday he got ready to go to church and took with him red eggs† to exchange Easter greetings with the brothers in poverty, although his mother had scolded him for this severely, for she was wicked and unmerciful to the poor. In the church he was short one egg. One disgusting beggar was without, so the lad invited him to his home to break the fast†† with him. When his mother saw the beggar, she grew really angry. “It would be better,” she said, “to break the fast with a dog than with such a disgusting old man.” And she refused to break the fast.
