re incapable I become of
attributing any sort of weight to this argument from the
disappearance of the body; for in fact, if there had been any
pious fraud on Elias's part, he would on the contrary have
displayed the corpse.

[7] See, for example, 2 Cel., 3, 86, as well as the encyclical
of Giovanni di Parma and Umberto di Romano, in 1225.

[8] The following among many others: Francis had particularly
high breeches made for him, to hide the wound in the side
(Bon., 201). At the moment of the apparition, which took place
during the night, so great a light flooded the whole country,
that merchants lodging in the inns of Casentino saddled their
beasts and set out on their way. _Fior., iii. consid._

Hase, in his study, is continually under the weight of the bad
impression made upon him by Bonaventura's deplorable
arguments; he sees the other witness only through him. I think
that if he had read simply Thomas of Celano's first Life, he
would have arrived at very different conclusions.

[9] The most important document is manuscript 344 of the
archives of Sacro Convento at Assisi. _Liber indulgentiae S.
Mariae de Angelis sive de Portiuncula in quo libra ego fr.
Franciscus Bartholi de Assisio posui quidquid potui sollicite
invenire in legendis antiquis et novis b. Francisci et in
aliis dictis sociorum ejus de loco eodem et commendatione
ipsius loci et quidquid veritatis et certitudinis potui
invenire de sacra indulgentia prefati loci, quomodo scilicet
fuit impetrata et data b. Francisco de miraculis ipsius
indulgentiae quae ipsam declarant certam et veram._ Bartholi
lived in the first half of the fourteenth century. His work is
still unpublished, but Father Leo Patrem M. O. is preparing it
for publication. The name of this learned monk gives every
guaranty for the accuracy of this difficult work; meanwhile a
detailed description and long extracts may be found in the
Miscellanea (ii., 1887). _La storia del perdono di Francesco
de Bartholi_, by Don Michele Faloci Pulignani, pp. 149-153
(cf. _Archiv._, i., p. 486). See also in the Miscellanea (i.,
1886, p. 15) a bibliographical note containing a detailed list
of fifty-eight works (cf. ibid., pp. 48, 145). The legend
itself is