. Francis's time makes this same
comparison: Burchard, Abbot of Urspurg ([Cross] 1226) [_Burchardi et
Cuonradi chronicon. Monum. Germ. hist. Script._, t. 23], has
left us an account of the approbation of Francis by the Pope,
all the more precious for being that of a contemporary. _Loc.
cit._, p. 376.

[18] _De nugis Curialium_, Dist. 1, cap. 31, p. 64, Wright's
edition. Cf. _Chronique de Laon_, Bouquet xiii., p. 680.

[19] See, for example, the letter of the Italian branch of the
Poor Men of Lyons [_Pauperos Lombardi_] to their brethren of
Germany, there called Leonistes. In it they show the points in
which they are not in harmony with the French Waldenses.
Published by Preger: _Abhandlungen der K. bayer. Akademie der
Wiss. Hist. Cl._, t. xiii., 1875, p. 19 ff.

[20] These continual journeyings sometimes gained for them the
name of _Passagieni_, as in the south of France the preachers of
certain sects are to-day called _Courriers_. The term, however,
specially designates a Judaizing sect who returned to the
literal observation of the Mosaic law: Doellinger, _Beitraege_, t.
ii., pp. 327 and 375. They should therefore be identified with
the _Circonsisi_ of the constitution of Frederic II.
(Huillard-Breholles, t. v., p. 280). See especially the fine
monograph of M. C. Molinier: _Memoires de l'Academie de
Toulouse_, 1888.

[21] A. SS., Aprilis, t. iii., p. 238d.

[22] I would say that between the inspiration of Francis and the
Catharian doctrines there is an irreconcilable opposition; but
it would not be difficult to find acts and words of his which
recall the contempt for matter of the Cathari; for example, his
way of treating his body. Some of his counsels to the friars:
_Unusquisque habet in potestate sua inimicum suum videlicit
corpus, per quod peccat._ Assisi MS. 338, folio 20b. Conform.
138, b. 2.--_Cum majorem inimicum corpore non habeam._ 2 Cel.,
3, 63. These are momentary but inevitable obscurations, moments
of forgetfulness, of discouragement, when a man is not himself,
and repeats mechanically what he hears said around him. The real
St. Francis is, on the contrary, the lover of nature, he who
sees in the whole creation the work of divine goodness, the
radiance of the ete