recitare fecisset, despexit cum et dixit: Vade frater, et quaere
porcus, quibus potius debes quam hominibus comparari, et involve
te cum eis in volutabro, et regulam illis a te commentatam
tradens, officium tuae praedicationis impende. Quod audiens
Franciscus inclinato capite exixit et porcis tandem inventis, in
luto se cum eis tamdiu involvit quousque a planta pedis usque ad
verticem, corpus suum totum cum ipso habitu polluisset. Sicque
ad consistorium revertens Papae se conspectibus praesentavit
dicens: Domine feci sicut praecepisti exaudi nunc obsecro
petitionem meam_. Ed. Wats, p. 340. The incident has a real
Franciscan color, and should have some historic basis.
Curiously, it in some sort meets a passage in the legend of
Bonaventura which is an interpolation of the end of the
thirteenth century. See A. SS., p. 591.

[19] 3 Soc., 50 and 51; Bon., 37; 2 Cel., 1, 11; Bernard de
Besse, Turin MS., f^o 101b. Ubertini di Casali (_Arbor vitae
crucifixae_, Venice, 1485, lib. v., cap. iii.) tells a curious
story in which he depicts the indignation of the prelates
against Francis. _Quaenam haec est doctrina nova quam infers
auribus nostris? Quis potest vivere sine temporalium
possessione? Numquid tu melior es quam patres nostri qui
dederunt nobis temporalia et in temporalibus abundantes
ecclesias possiderunt?_ Then follows the fine prayer inserted by
Wadding in Francis's works. The central idea is the same as in
the parable of poverty. This story, though not referable to any
source, has nevertheless its importance, since it shows how in
the year 1300 a man who had all the documents before his eyes,
represented to himself Francis's early steps.

[20] Bon., 36.

[21] The attempt of Durand of Huesca to create a mendicant order
has not yet been studied with sufficient minuteness. Chief of
the Waldenses of Aragon, he was present in 1207 at the
conference of Pamiers, and decided to return to the Church.
Received with kindness by the pope he at first had a great
success, and by 1209 had established communities in Aragon, at
Carcassonne, Narbonne, Beziers, Nimes, Uzes, Milan. We find in
this movement all the lineaments of the institute of St.
Dominic; it was an order of priests to whom