erunt eum praeter fratres Minores. Et similiter Papam
Gregorium et Honorium et Innocentium in cujus obitu fuit
praesentialiter S. Franciscus._ Eccl. xv. _Mon. Germ. hist.
Script._, t. 28 p. 568. Sbaralea puts forth doubts as to the
authenticity of this privilege, the text of which he gives;
wrongly, I think, for Clara alludes to it in her will, A. SS.,
p. 747.
[24] He was born about 1147, created cardinal in 1198. Vide
Raynald, _ann._, 1217, Sec. 88, the eulogy made upon him by
Honorius III. _Forma decorus et venustus aspectu ... zelator
fidei, disciplina virtutis, ... castitatis amator et totius
sanctitatis exemplar_: Muratori, _Scriptores rer. Ital._, iii.,
1, 575.
[25] 1 Cel., 74.
[26] The bull _Litterae tuae_ of August 27, 1218, shows him
already favoring the Clarisses. Sbaralea, i., p. 1. Vide 3 Soc.,
61. _Offero me ipsum, dixit Hugolinus, vobis, auxilium et
consilium, atque protectionem paratus impendere._
[27] In the Conformities, 107a, 2, there is a curious story
which shows Ugolini going to the Carceri to find Francis, and
asking him if he ought to enter his Order. Cf. _Spec._, 217.
[28] He succeeded so well that Thomas of Celano himself seems to
forget that, at least at St. Damian, the Clarisses followed the
Rule given by St. Francis himself: _Ipsorum vita mirifica et
institutio gloriosa a domino Papa Gregorio, tunc Hostiensi
episcopo._ 1 Cel. 20. Cf. _Honorii Opera_ Horoy, t. iii., col.
363; t. iv., col. 218; Potthast, 6179 and 6879 ff.
[29] This privilege is inserted in the bull _Sacrosancta_ of
December 9, 1219. _Honorii opera_, Horoy, t. iii., col. 363 ff.
[30] G. Levi, _Registri dei Cardinali_, no. 125. Vide below, p.
400. Cf. Campi, _Hist. eccl. di Piacenza_, ii., 390.
[31] See, for example, the letter given by Wadding: Annals, ii.,
p. 16 (Rome, 1732). _Tanta me amaritudo cordis, abundantia
lacrymarum et immanitas doloris invasit, quod nisi ad pedes
Jesu, consolationem solitae pietatis invenirem, spiritus meus
forte deficeret et penitus anima liquefieret._ Wadding's text
should be corrected by that of the Riccardi MS., 279. f^o 80a
and b. Cf. Mark of Lisbon, t. i., p. 185; Sbaralea, i., p. 37.
[32] Bull _Angelis gaudium_ of May 11, 1238; it may be found in
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