the which
thing, when the time came for her to be delivered, a pavilion was
erected on the piazza at Palermo, and a proclamation was put forth
that any lady who desired might go and see her, and many went thither
and saw her, and therefore the doubt came to an end.

[Sidenote: 1196 A.D.]

[Sidenote: 1200 A.D.]

[Sidenote: 1203 A.D.]

[Sidenote: 1192 A.D.]

[Sidenote: 1197 A.D.]

[Sidenote: 1198 A.D.]

Sec. 17.--_How the Emperor Henry conquered the kingdom of Apulia._
Sec. 18.--_How the Emperor Henry rebelled against the Church, and
persecuted it, and how he died._ Sec. 19.--_How Otho IV. of Saxony was
elected Emperor._ Sec. 20.--_How the whole orb of the sun was eclipsed._
Sec. 21.--_How they of Samminiato destroyed their whole city by their
discords._ Sec. 22.--_How the Florentines bought Montegrossoli._ Sec.
23.--_How Innocent III. was made Pope._

Sec. 24.--_How the Order of the Minor Friars began._

[Sidenote: Par. xi. 43-117.]

In the time of the said Pope Innocent began the holy Order of the
Minor Friars, the founder whereof was the blessed Francis, born in the
city of Assisi in the Duchy, and by this Pope the said Order was
accepted and approved with privilege, forasmuch as it was altogether
founded on humility, and love, and poverty, following in all things
the holy gospel of Christ, and shunning all human delights. And the
said Pope saw in a vision S. Francis supporting the Church of the
Lateran upon his shoulders, as he afterwards, after the same manner,
beheld S. Dominic, the which vision was a figure and prophecy how by
them should be supported Holy Church and the faith of Christ.

Sec. 25.--_How the Order of the Preaching Friars began._

[Sidenote: Par. xi. 118-123; xii. 46-105.]

[Sidenote: 1216 A.D.]

And still in the time of the said Pope, after the same manner began
the Order of the Preaching Friars, the founder whereof was the blessed
Dominic, born in Spain. But in this Pope's time it was not confirmed,
albeit in a vision it seemed to the said Pope that the Church of the
Lateran was falling upon him, and the blessed Dominic sustained it on
his shoulders. And by reason of this vision he purposed to confirm it,
but death overtook him, and his successor, Pope Honorius, afterwards
confirmed it the year of Christ 1216. The visions of the aforesaid
Innocent, concerning S. Francis and S. Dominic, were true, for the
Church of God was falling through many errors and many licentious
sin