Rome.

[5] 1 Cel., 36 and 37; 3 Soc., 54; Bon., 45-48.

[6] Isaiah, lv., 2.

[7] This Order deserves to be better known; it was founded under
Alexander III. and rapidly spread all over Central Italy and the
East. In Francis's lifetime it had in Italy and the Holy Land
about forty houses dedicated to the care of lepers. It is very
probable that it was at _San Salvatore delle Pareti_ that
Francis visited these unhappy sufferers. He there made the
particular acquaintance of a Cruciger named _Morico_. The latter
afterward falling ill, Francis sent him a remedy which would
cure him, informing him at the same time that he was to become
his disciple, which shortly afterward took place. The hospital
_San Salvatore_ has disappeared; it stood in the place now
called _Ospedaletto_, where a small chapel now stands half way
between Assisi and Santa Maria degli Angeli. It was from there
that the dying Francis blessed Assisi. For Morico vide 3 Soc.,
35; Bon., 49; 2 Cel., 3, 128; _Conform._, 63b.--For the hospital
vide Bon., 49; _Conform._, 135a, 1; _Honorii III. opera_, Horoy,
t. i., col. 206. Cf. Potthast, 7746; L. Auvray, _Registres de
Gregoire IX._, Paris, 1890, 4to, no. 209. For the Crucigeri in
the time of St. Francis vide the interesting bull _Cum tu fili
prior_, of July 8, 1203; Migne, _Inn. op._, t. ii., col. 125 ff.
Cf. Potthast, 1959, and _Cum pastoris_, April 5, 1204; Migne,
_loc. cit._, 319. Cf. Potthast, 2169 and 4474.

[8] 3 Soc., 55.

[9] All this yet remains in its primitive state. The road which
went from Assisi to the now ruined Abbey of Mount Subasio
(almost on the summit of the mountain) passed the Carceri, where
there was a little chapel built by the Benedictines.

[10] _Illi qui religiose volunt stare in eremis sint tres aut
quatuor ad plus. Duo ex ipsis sint matres, et habeant duos
filios, vel unum ad minus. Illi duo teneant vitam Marthae et alii
duo vitam Mariae Magdalenae._ Assisi MS., 338, 43a-b; text given
also in _Conf._, 143a, 1, from which Wadding borrows it for his
edition of the _Opuscules_ of St. Francis. Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 113.
It is possible that we have here a fragment of the Rule, which
must have been composed toward 1217.

[11] 1 Cel., 42 and 43; 3 Soc., 55; Bon