Part 30 (1/2)

[21] 2 Cel., 3, 92; _Spec._, 30b. Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 115.

_Conform._, 142b, 1. This incident may possibly have taken place on the return.

[22] With the facilities of that period the voyage required from twenty to thirty days. The _diarium_ of a similar pa.s.sage may be found in Huillard-Breholles, _Hist. Dipl._, t. i., 898-901. Cf.

_Ibid._, Introd., p. cccx.x.xi.

[23] 2 Cel., 22; Bon 154, 155; cf. A. SS., p. 612.

[24] Jacques de Vitry speaks only incidentally of Francis here in the midst of salutations; from the critical point of view this only enhances the value of his words. See the Study of the Sources, p. 428.

[25] Vide below, the Study of the Sources, p. 430.

[26] All this is related at length by Jacques de Vitry.

[27] ”Cil hom qui comenca l'ordre des Freres Mineurs, si ot nom frere Francois ... vint en l'ost de Damiate, e i fist moult de bien, et demora tant que la ville fut prise. Il vit le mal et le peche qui comenca a croistre entre les gens de l'ost, si li desplot, par quoi il s'en parti, e fu une piece en Surie, et puis s'en rala en son pais.” Historiens des Croisades, ii.

_L'Est de Eracles Empereur_, liv. x.x.xii., chap. xv. Cf. Sanuto; _Secreta fid. cruc._, lib. iii., p. xi., cap. 8, in Bongars.

[28] Giord., Chron., 11-14.

[29] The episode of Brother Leonard's complaints, related below, gives some probability to this hypothesis.

[30] _Tribul._, Laur. MS., 9b. Cf. 10b: _Sepulcro Domini visitato festinat ad Christianorum terram_.

[31] Upon this monastery see a letter _ad familiares_ of Jacques de Vitry, written in 1216 and published in 1847 by Baron Jules de St. Genois in t. xiii. of the _Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences et des beaux arts de Bruxelles_ (1849). _Conform._, 106b, 2; 114a, 2; _Spec._, 184.

[32] A. SS., pp. 619-620, 848, 851, 638.

[33] Vide Bull _Sacrosancta_ of December 9, 1219. Cf. those of September 19, 1222; Sbaralea, i., p. 3, 11 ff.; Potthast, 6179, 6879a, b, c.

[34] Vide Potthast, 6155, 6177, 6184, 6199, 6214, 6217, 6218, 6220, 6246. See also _Chartularium Universitatis Par._, t. i., 487.

[35] Bull _Quia qui seminant_ of May 12, 1220. Ripalli, _Bul.

Praed._, t. i., p. 10 (Potthast, 6249).

[36] _Mon. Germ. hist. Script._, t. 23, p. 376. This pa.s.sage is of extreme importance because it sums up in a few lines the ecclesiastical policy of Honorius III. After speaking of the perils with which the _Humiliati_ threatened the Church, Burchard adds: _Quae volens corrigere dominus papa ordinem Predicatorum inst.i.tuit et confirmavit._ Now these _Humiliati_ were an approved Order. But Burchard, while cla.s.sing them with heretics beside the Poor Men of Lyons, expresses in a word the sentiments of the papacy toward them; it had for them an invincible repugnance, and not wis.h.i.+ng to strike them directly it sought a side issue. Similar tactics were followed with regard to the Brothers Minor, with that overplus of caution which the prodigious success of the Order inspired. It all became useless when in 1221 Brother Elias became Francis's vicar, and especially when, after the latter's death, he had all the liberty necessary for directing the Order according to the views of Ugolini, now become Gregory IX.

[37] 1 Cel., 25; cf. A. SS., p. 581. Pietro di Catana had the t.i.tle of doctor of laws, Giord., 11, which entirely disagrees with what is related of Brother Pietro, 3 Soc., 28 and 29. Cf.

Bon., 28 and 29; _Spec._, 5b; _Fior._, 2; _Conform._, 47; 52b, 2; _Petrus vir litteratus erat et n.o.bilis_, Giord., 12.

[38] We know nothing more of him except that after his death he had the gift of miracles. Giord., 11; _Conform._, 62a, 1.

[39] He was not an ordinary man; a remarkable administrator and orator (Eccl., 6), he was minister in France before 1224 and again in 1240, thanks to the zeal with which he had adopted the ideas of Brother Elias. He was nephew of Gregory IX., which throws some light upon the practices which have just been described. After having been swept away in Elias's disgrace and condemned to prison for life, he became in the end Bishop of Bayeux. I note for those who take an interest in those things that ma.n.u.scripts of two of his sermons may be found in the National Library of Paris. The author of them being indicated simply as _fr. Gr. min._, it has only lately become known whose they were. These sermons were preached in Paris on Holy Thursday and Sat.u.r.day. MS. new. acq., Lat., 338 f^o 148, 159.

[40] Giord., 11. Cf. _Spec._, 34b. _Fior._, 4; _Conform._, 184a, 1.

[41] Giord., 12. Cf. Bull _Sacrosancta_ of December 9, 1219.

[42] Giord., 12. Ought we, perhaps, to read di Campello? Half way between Foligno and Spoleto there is a place of this name.