ns already made from
the origin of the Order. Cf. 1 Cel., 38 and 39; _Conform._,
219b. 1: _Juvabant Fratres pauperes homines in agris eorum et
ipsi dabant postea eis de pane amore Dei._ _Spec._, 34; 69. Vide
also _Archiv._, t. ii., pp. 272 and 299; Eccleston, 1 and 15; 2
Cel., 1, 12.

[9] _Nihil volebat proprietatis habere ut omnia plenius posset
in Domino possidere._ B. de Besse, 102a.

[10] Their concord and their joyous semblances
The love, the wonder and the sweet regard
They made to be the cause of holy thought.

DANTE: Paradiso, canto xi., verses 76-78. Longfellow's translation.

[11] _Amor factus ... castis eam, stringit amplexibus nec ad
horam patitur non esse muritus._ 2 Cel., 3, 1; cf. 1 Cel., 35;
51; 75; 2 Cel., 3, 128; 3 Soc., 15; 22; 33; 35; 50; Bon., 87;
_Fior._ 13.

[12] Bon., 93.--_Prohibuit fratrem qui faciebat coquinam ne
poneret legumina de sero in aqua calida quae debebat dare
fratribus ad manducandum die sequenti ut observaverint illud
verbum Evangelii: Nolite solliciti esse de crastino._ _Spec._,
15.

[13] 2 Cel., 3, 50.

[14] _Cap._, 21. Cf. _Fior., I. consid._, 18; 30; _Conform._,
103a, 2; 2 Cel., 3, 99; 100; 121. Vide Mueller, _Anfaenge_, p.
187.

[15] Vide his _Opera omnia postillis illustrata_, by Father de
la Haye, 1739, f^o. For his life, Surius and Wadding arranged
and mutilated the sources to which they had access; the
Bollandists had only a legend of the fifteenth century. The
Latin manuscript 14,363 of the Bibliotheque Nationale gives one
which dates from the thirteenth. Very Rev. Father Hilary, of
Paris: _Saint Antoine de Padone, sa legende primitive_,
Montreuil-sur-Mer, Imprimerie Notre-Dame-des-Pres, 1890, 1 vol.,
8vo. Cf. _Legenda seu vita et miracula S. Antonii saeculo xiii
concinnata ex cod. memb. antoniae bibliothecae_ a P.M. Antonio
Maria Josa min. comv. Bologna, 1883, 1 vol., 8vo.

[16] This evangelical character of his mission is brought out in
relief by all his biographers. 1 Cel., 56; 84; 89; 3 Soc. 25;
34; 40; 43; 45; 48; 51; 57; 2 Cel., 3, 8; 50; 93.

[17] _Spec._, 134; 2 Cel., 3, 128.

[18] The Order was at first essentially lay (at the present time
it is, so far as I know, the only one in which there is no
differe