[25] A. SS., p. 600.

[26] 3 Soc., 56; 2 Cel., 1, 13; Bon., 24.

[27] Bon., 30; 3 Soc., 30, 31; 2 Cel., 3, 52. Cf. _Fior._, 2.
The dragon of this dream perhaps symbolizes heresy.

[28] Bon., 83; 172; _Fior._, 1, 16; _Conform._, 49a, 1, and
110b, 1; 2 Cel., 3, 51.

[29] Bernard de Besse, _De laudibus_, Turin MS., f^o. 102b and
96a. He died November 15, 1271. A. SS., Augusti, t. ii., p. 221.

[30] _Fior._, 8; _Spec._, 89b ff.; _Conform._, 30b, 2, and 140a,
2.

[31] I need not here point out the analogy in form between this
chapter and St. Paul's celebrated song of love, 1 Cor. xiii.

[32] We find the same thoughts in nearly the same terms in
_cap._ v. of the _Verba sacrae admonitionis_.

[33] He is the second of the Three Companions. 3 Soc., 1; cf. 1
Cel., 95; _Fior._, 1; 29, 30, 31; Eccleston, 12; _Spec._,
110a-114b; _Conform._, 51b ff.; cf. 2 Cel., 2, 4.

[34] Very probably that of the Carceri, though the name is not
indicated Vide 3 Soc., 1; _Fior._, 4; 10; 11; 12; 13; 16; 27;
32; _Conform._, 51b, 1 ff; _Tribul. Archiv._, t. ii., p. 263.

[35] _Fior._, 11; _Conform._, 50b, 2; _Spec._, 104a.

[36] Rule of 1221, chap. 7. _Omnes fratres, in quibuscumque
locis fuerint apud aliquos ad serviendum, vel ad laborandum, non
sint camerarii, nec cellarii, nec praesint in domibus corum
quibus serviunt._ Cf. 1 Cel., 38 and 40; A. SS., p. 606.

[37] 1 Cel., 103; 39; _Spec._, 28; Reg. 1221, ix.; _Giord._, 33
and 39.

[38] Vide _Spec._, 34b.; _Fior._, 4.

[39] All the details of this story lead me to think that it
refers to Portiuncula and the hospital _San Salvatore delle
Pareti_. The story is given by the _Conform._, 174b, 2, as taken
from the _Legenda Antiqua_. Cf. _Spec._, 56b; _Fior._, 25.

[40] In the _Speculum_, f^o 41a, this story ends with the
phrase: _Qui vidit haec scripsit et testimonium perhibet de
hiis_. The brother is here called _Frater Jacobus simplex_. Cf.
_Conform._, 174b.

[41] _Conform._, 51b, 1. Cf. 2 Cel., 2, 4; _Spec._, 110b;
_Fior._, 29.

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CHAPTER IX

SANTA CLARA

Popular piety in Umbria never separates the memory of St. Francis from
that of Santa Clara. It is right.

Clara[1] was born at Assisi in 1194, and was consequently about twelve
years younger than Fra