His bones are generally said to have been dug up and burned a few months after interment, by order of the general, Giovanni di Murro (Tocco, op. cit. p. 503). Wadding, indeed, asserts that they were twice exhumed (ann. 1297, No. 36). Eymerich mentions a tradition that they were carried to Avignon and thrown by night into the Rhone (Eymerici Direct. Inquis. p. 313). The cult of which they were the object shows that this could not have been the case, and Bernard Gui, the best possible authority, in commenting on the Transitus states that they were abstracted in 1318 and hidden no one knows where—doubtless by disciples to prevent the impending profanation of exhumation.
[49] Wadding. ann. 1291, No. 13; 1297, No. 35; 1312, No. 4.—Lib. Sententt. Inq. Tolos. pp. 306, 319.—Coll. Doat. XXVII. fol. 7 sqq.—Lib. I. Clement, i. 1.—Tocco, op. cit. pp. 509-10.—MSS. Bib. Nat. No. 4270, fol. 168.—Franz Ehrle (ubi sup. 1885, p. 544; 1886, pp. 389-98, 402-5; 1887, pp. 449, 491).—Raymond de Fronciacho (Archiv, 1887, p. 17).
The traditional wrath of the Conventuals was still strong enough in the year 1500 to lead the general chapter held at Terni to forbid, under pain of imprisonment, any member of the Order from possessing any of Olivi’s writings.—Franz Ehrle (ubi sup. 1887, pp. 457-8).
[50] Hist. Tribulat. (loc. cit. pp. 288-9).—Coll. Doat, XXVII. fol. 7 sqq.—Lib. Sententt. Inq. Tolos. pp. 306, 308.—Bernard. Guidon. Practica P.Y.
[51] Hist. Tribulat. (loc. cit. pp. 300-1).—Tocco, pp. 489-91, 503-4.
Wadding (ann. 1297, No. 33-5) identifies Pons Botugati with St. Pons Carboneth, the illustrious teacher of St. Louis of Toulouse. Franz Ehrle (Archiv für L. u. K. 1886, p. 300) says he can find no evidence of this, and the author of the Hist. Tribulat., in his detailed account of the affair, would hardly have omitted a fact so serviceable to his cause.
[52] Baluz. et Mansi II. 249-50.—Bern. Guidon. Pract. P. v.—Doat, XXVII. fol. 7 sqq.—Bern. Guidon. Vit. Johann. PP. XXII. (Muratori S. R. I. III. II. 491).—Wadding. ann. 1325, No. 4.—Alvar. Pelag. de Planctu Eccles. Lib. II. art. 59.—Baluz. et Mansi II. 266-70.
[53] Franz Ehrle (Archiv f. L. u. K. 1886, pp. 368-70, 407-9).—Wadding. ann. 1297, No. 36-47.—Baluz. et Mansi II. 276.
Tocco (Archivio Storico Italiano, T. XVII. No. 2.—Cf. Franz Ehrle, Archiv für L. u. K. 1887, p. 493) has recently found in the Laurentian Library a MS. of Olivi’s Postil on the Apocalypse. It contains all the passages cited in the condemnation, showing that the commission which sat in judgment did not invent them, but as it is of the fifteenth century it does not invalidate the suggestion that his followers interpolated his work after his death.
[54] Concil. Biterrens. ann. 1299 c. 4 (Martene Thesaur. IV. 226).—Ubertini Declaratio (Archiv f. Litt.-u. K. 1887, pp. 183-4).