7] _Guillelmi Tyrensis arch. Continuala belli sacri historia_
in Martene: _Amplissima Collectio_, t. v. pp. 584-572. The piece
concerning Francis is cols. 689-690.

[8] _Chronicon Montis Sereni_ (at present Petersberg, near
Halle), edited by Ehrenfeuchter in the _Mon. Germ. hist.
Script._, t. 23, pp. 130-226, 229.

[9] _Burchardi et Cuonradi Urspergensium chronicon_ ed., A. Otto
Abel and L. Weiland, _apud Mon. Germ, hist._, t. 23, pp.
333-383. The monastery of Ursperg was half-way between Ulm and
Augsburg. Vide p. 376.

[10] _Matthaei Parisiensis monachie Albanensis, Historia major_,
edition Watts, London, 1640. The Brothers Minor are first
mentioned in the year 1207, p. 222, then 1227, pp. 339-342.

[11] See the article, _Minores_, in the table of contents of the
_Mon. Germ. hist. Script._, t. xxviii.

[12] _Franz von Assisi_, p. 168 ff.

[13] See above, p. 97, his story of the audience with Innocent
III.

[14] For example, _Chronica Albrici trium fontium_ in Pertz:
_Script._, t. 23, _ad ann. 1207_, 1226, 1228. Vide Fragment of
the chron. of Philippe Mousket ([Cross] before 1245). _Recueil des
historiens_, t. xxii., p. 71, lines 30347-30360. The number of
annalists in this century is appalling, and there is not one in
ten who has omitted to note the foundation of the Minor
Brothers.

[15] For example, Vincent de Beauvais ([Cross] 1264) gives in his
_Speculum historiale_, lib. 29, cap. 97-99, lib. 30, cap.
99-111, nearly every story given by the Bollandists under the
title of _Secunda legenda_ in their _Commentarium praevium_.

[16] _Legenda aurea_, Graesse, Breslau, 1890, pp. 662-674.

[17] A good reproduction of it will be found in the _Miscellanea
francescana_, t. ii., pp. 33-37, accompanied by a learned
dissertation by M. Faloci Pulignani.

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APPENDIX

CRITICAL STUDY OF THE STIGMATA AND THE INDULGENCE OF AUGUST 2

I. THE STIGMATA

A dissertation upon the possibility of miracles would be out of place
here; a historic sketch is not a treatise on philosophy or dogmatics.

Still, I owe the reader a few explanations, to enable him with thorough
understanding to judge of my manner of viewing the subject.

If by miracle we understand either the suspension or subversion of the
laws