[30.] Bon., 177.
[31.] Vide A. SS., pp. 855 and 856. Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 136.
[32.] Among others those of December 5, 1217, Potthast, 5629; February 8, March 30, April 7, 1218, Potthast, 5695, 5739, 5747.
[33.] 1 Cel., 74. O quanti maxime in principio cum hæc agerentur novellæ plantationi ordinis insidiabantur ut perderent. Cf. 2 Cel., 1, 16. Videbat Franciscus luporum more sevire quamplures.
[34.] 1 Cel., 73 (cf. 2 Cel., 1, 17; Spec., 102a); 3 Soc., 64; Bon., 78. The fixing of this scene in the winter of 1217-1218 seems hardly to be debatable; Giordano's account (14) in fact determines the date at which Ugolini became officially protector of the Order; it supposes earlier relations between Honorius, Francis, and Ugolini. We are therefore led to seek a date at which these three personages may have met in Rome, and we arrive thus at the period between December, 1217, and April, 1218.
[35.] A word of Brother Giordano's opens the door to certain conjectures. "My lord," said Francis to Honorius III., in 1220, "you have given me many fathers (popes) give me a single one to whom I may turn with the affairs of my Order." (Giord., 14, Multos mihi papas dedisti da unum, ... etc.)
Does not this suggest the idea that the pontiff had perhaps named a commission of cardinals to oversee the Brothers Minor? Its deliberations and the events to be related in the following chapter might have impelled him to issue the bull Cum dilecti of June 11, 1219, which was not an approbation properly so called, but a safe-conduct in favor of the Franciscans.
[36.] He took possession of St. Sabine on February 28, 1218.
[37.] 2 Cel., 3, 87. The literal meaning of the phrase is somewhat ambiguous. The text is: Vellem, frater Francisce, unam fieri religionem tuam et meam et in Ecclesia pari forma nos vivere. Spec. 27b. The echo of this attempt is found in Thierry d'Apolda, Vie de S. Dominique (A. SS., Augusti, t. i., p. 572 d): S. Dominicus in oscula sancta ruens et sinceros amplexus, dixit: Tu es socius meus, tu curres pariter mecum, stemus simul, nullus adversarius prævalebit. Bernard of Besse says: B. Dominicus tanta B. Francisco devotione cohesit ut optatam ab eo cordam sub inferiori tunica devotissimi cingeret, cujus et suam Religionem unam velle fieri diceret, ipsumque pro sanctitate cæteris sequendem religiosis assereret. Turin MS., 102b.
[38.] At the chapter held at Bologna at Whitsunday, 1220. The bull Religiosam vitam (Privilege of Notre Dame de Prouille) of March 30, 1218, enumerates the possessions of the Dominicans. Ripolli, Bull. Præd., t. i., p. 6. Horoy, Honorii opera, t. ii., col. 684.