ave so clearly seen
this argument that they have been obliged to deny the
authenticity of the bull (or at least to suppose it wrongly
dated). A. SS., p. 839.

[2] Vide A. SS., p. 604. Cf. Angelo Clareno, _Tribul. Archiv._,
i., p. 559. _A papa Innocentis fuit omnibus annuntiatum in
concilio generali ... sicut sanctus vir fr. Leo scribit et fr.
Johannes de Celano._ These lines have not perhaps the
significance which one would be led to give them at the first
glance, their author having perhaps confounded _consilium_ and
_consistorium_. The Speculum, 20b says: _Eam (Regulam
Innocentius) approvabit et concessit et postea in consistorio
omnibus annuntiavit._

[3] _Ne nimia Religionem diversitas gravem in Ecclesia Dei
confusionem inducat, firmiter prohibemus, ne quis de
coetero novam Religionem inveniat; sed quicumque voluerit
ad Religionem converti, unam de approbatis assumat._ Labbe and
Cossart: _Sacrosancta concilia_, Paris, 1672, t. xi., col. 165.

[4] Eccl., 15 (_An. franc._, t. 1, p. 253): _Innocentium in
cujus obitu fuit presentialiter S. Franciscus_.

[5] 3 Soc., 61; cf. _An. Perus._, A. SS., p. 606f.

[6] Thomas of Celano must be in error when he declares that
Francis was not acquainted with Cardinal Ugolini before the
visit which he made him at Florence (summer of 1217): _Nondum
alter alteri erat praecipua familiaritate conjunctus_ (1 Cel., 74
and 75). The Franciscan biographer's purpose was not historic;
chronological indications are given in profusion; what he seeks
is the _apta junctura_. Tradition has preserved the memory of a
chapter held at Portiuncula in presence of Ugolini during a stay
of the curia at Perugia (_Spec._, 137b.; _Fior_., 18;
_Conform._, 207a; 3 Soc., 61). But the curia did not come back
to Perugia between 1216 and Francis's death. It is also to be
noted that according to Angelo Clareno, Ugolini was with Francis
in 1210, supporting him in the presence of Innocent III. Vide
below, p. 413. Finally the bull _Sacrosancta_ of December 9,
1219, witnesses that already during his legation in Florence
(1217) Ugolini was actually interesting himself for the
Clarisses.

[7] See, for example, the description of the chapter of 1221 by
Brother Giordano. Gi