563c.

[2] It is enough to have lived in the country of Naples to know
that there is nothing exaggerated in this picture. I am much
surprised that intelligent and good men fancy that to change the
religious formula of these people would suffice to transform
them. What a mistake! To-day, as in the time of Jesus, the
important matter is not to adore on Mount Moriah or Mount Zion,
but to adore in spirit and in truth.

[3] 1 Cel., 3 and 4.

[4] 3 Soc., 5. In the existing state of the documents it is
impossible to know whom this name designates, for at that time
it was borne by a number of counts who are only to be
distinguished by the names of their castles. The three following
are possible: 1. _Gentile comes de Campilio_, who in 1215 paid
homage for his property to the commune of Orvieto: _Le antiche
cronache di Orvieto, Arch. stor. ital._, 5th series., 1889,
iii., p. 47. 2. _Gentilis comes filius Alberici_, who with
others had made donation of a monastery to the Bishop of
Foligno: Confirmatory Bull _In eminenti_ of April 10, 1210:
Ughelli, _Italia Sacra_, 1, p. 697; Potthast, 3974. 3. _Gentilis
comes Manupelli_; whom we find in July, 1200, assuring to
Palermo the victory over the troops sent by Innocent III.
against Marckwald; Huillard-Breholles, _Hist. dipl._, i. p., 46
ff. Cf. Potthast, 1126. _Gesta Innocenti_, Migne, vol. i.,
xxxii, ff. Cf. Huillard-Breholles, _loc. cit._, pages 60, 84,
89, 101. It is wrong to consider that Gentile could here be a
mere adjective; the 3 Soc. say _Gentile nomine_.

[5] 1 Cel., 4; 3 Soc., 5.

[6] 3 Soc., 6; 2 Cel., 1, 2; Bon., 8.

[7] 1 Cel., 5; 3 Soc., 5; 2 Cel., 1, 2; Bon., 9.

[8] 3 Soc., 6; Bon., 9; 2 Cel., 1, 2.

[9] 3 Soc., 6; 2 Cel., 1, 2.

[10] These days are recalled by Celano with a very particular
precision. It is very improbable that Francis, usually so
reserved as to his personal experience, should have told him
about them (2 Cel., 3, 68 and 42, cf. Bon., 144). On the other
hand, nothing forbids his having been informed on this matter by
Brother Elias. (I strongly suspect the legend which tells of an
old man appearing on the day Francis was born and begging
permission to take the child in his arms, saying, "To-day, two
infant