out 1250, one sees with what
reason the Rule had multiplied minute precautions for keeping
the Brothers from all relations with women.

The desire of Celano to present the facts in the life of Francis
as the norm of the acts of the friars appears still more in the
chapters concerning St. Clara than in all the others. Vide 2
Cel., 3, 132: _Non credatis, charissimi (dixit Franciscus),
quodeas perfecte non diligam.... Sed exemplum do vobis, ut
quemadmodum ego facio, ita et vos faciatis._ Cf. ibid., 134.

[3] 2 Cel., 3, 55. _Fateor veritatem ... nullam me si aspicerem
recogniturum in facie nisi duas_. This chapter and the two
following give us a sort of caricature, in which Francis is
represented as so little sure of himself that he casts down his
eyes for fear of yielding to desire. The stories of Francis and
Jacqueline of Settesoli give a very different picture of the
relations between the Brothers and the women in the origin of
the Order from that which was given later. Bernard de Besse
(Turin MS., f^o. 113) relates at length the coming of Jacqueline
to Portiuncula to be present at St. Francis's death. Cf.
_Spec._, 107; 133; Bon., 112. Also Clara's repast at
Portiuncula. _Fior._, 15; _Spec._, 139b.; A. SS. _Aug. Vita
Clar._, No. 39 ff.

[4] Isaiah, lxiii., 8 and 9 (Segond's [French] translation). At
the Mass on Holy Monday Isaiah lxiii. is read for the Epistle
and Mark xiv. for the Gospel.

[5] San Paolo on the Chiasco, near Bastia.

[6] At the present day diocesan seminary of Assisi, "_Seminarium
seraphicum_." In the thirteenth century the north gate of the
city was there. The houses which lie between there and the
Basilica form the new town, which is rapidly growing and will
unite the city with Sacro Convento.

[7] _Nam steteramus in alio loco, licet parum. Test. Clar._ It
is truly strange that there is not a word here for the house
where the first days of her religious life were passed. Cf.
_Vit._, no. 10: _S. Angelus de Panse ... ubi cum non plene mens
ejus quiesceret._

[8] Mittarelli, _Annales Camaldulenses_ (Venice, 1755-1773, 9
vols., f^o.), t. iv., app. 431 and 435. Cf. 156.

[9] The act of donation is still in the archives of Assisi. An
analysis of it will be f