[24] Ruskin. The two paths: Lecture III.
[25] Celano. Vita I. cap. 2.
[26] "Le vide lamentable de sa vie lui était tout à coup apparu; il était effrayé de cette solitude d'une grande âme, dans laquelle il n'y a point d'autel." Paul Sabatier. Vie de S. François d'Assise, p. 17.
[27] From a 15th century translation of the will of St. Francis. See Monumenta Franciscana. Chronicles edited by J. S. Brewer vol. iv. p. 562.
[28] Life of Beato Egidio in the Little Flowers of St. Francis.
[29] Life of Beato Egidio in the Little Flowers of St. Francis.
[30] One of the most beautiful stories in the Fioretti (chapter xxxiv.) recounts how St. Louis, King of France, visited Beato Egidio at Perugia. The king and the poor friar kneeling together in the courtyard of the convent, embracing each other like familiar friends, is a picture such as only Umbrian literature could have left us. There was absolute silence between the two, yet we are told St. Louis returned to his kingdom and Egidio to his cell with "marvellous content and consolation" in their souls.
[31] See Suprà, p. 47.
[32] Quoted by Sigonius in his work on the Bishops of Bologna. Opera omnia, v. iii., translated by Canon Knox Little. Life of St. Francis of Assisi, p. 179.
[33] Speculum Perfectionis, cap. cv., edited by Paul Sabatier.