texts to
find an answer. The same course was followed with regard to the
first missionary journeys. But on both sides they came up
against impossibilities and contradictions. What does it matter
whether there were two, three, or four missions before the papal
approbation? Of what consequence are the names of those early
disciples who are entirely secondary in the history of the
Franciscan movement? All these things took place with much more
simplicity and spontaneity than is generally supposed. There is
a wide difference between the plan of a house drawn up by an
architect and a view of the same house painted by an artist. The
second, though abounding in inexactitudes, gives a more just
notion of the reality than the plan. The same is true of the
Franciscan biographies.

[3] 1 Cel., 24. Bernard de Besse is the first to call him B. di
Quintavalle: _De laudibus_, fo. 95 h.; cf. upon him Mark of
Lisbon, t. i., second part, pp. 68-70; _Conform._, 47; _Fior._,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 28; 3 Soc., 27, 30, 39; 2 Cel., 1, 10; 2, 19;
Bon., 28; 1 Cel., 30; Salimbeni, ann. 1229, and _Tribul. Arch._,
ii., p. 278, etc.

[4] 1 Cel., 24; 3 Soc., 27, 28, 29; 2 Cel., 1, 10; 3, 52; Bon.,
28; A. SS., p. 580. It is evident that the tradition has been
worked over here: it soon came to be desired to find a miracle
in the manner in which Francis found the passage for reading.
The St. Nicholas Church is no longer in existence; it stood upon
the piece of ground now occupied by the barracks of the
_gendarmerie_ (_carabinieri reali_).

[5] Matt., xix., 21; Luke, ix., 1-6; Matt., xvi., 24-26. The
agreement of tradition upon these passages is complete. 3 Soc.,
29; 2 Cel., 1, 10; Bon., 28; _Spec._, 5b.; _Conform._, 37b. 2,
47a. 2; _Fior._, 2; Glassberger and the Chronicle of the xxiv.
generals reversing the order (Analecta, fr., t. ii., p. 5) as
well as the Conformities in another place, 87b, 2.

[6] 3 Soc., 30. Cf. _Anon. Perus._, A. SS., p. 581a. This scene
is reported neither by Celano nor by St. Bonaventura.

[7] This date is given in the life of Brother Egidio; A. SS.,
_Oct._, t. ii., p. 572; _Aprilis_, t. iii., p. 220. It fits well
with the accounts. Through it we obtain the approximate date of
the defi