ound in Cristofani, t. i., p. 133. Their
munificence remained without result; the bull _Ab Ecclesia_ of
July 27, 1232, shows that they were suppressed less than twenty
years after. _Sbaralea_, t. 1, p. 81. Potthast, 8984. Cf., ib.,
p. 195, note c, and 340, note a, and the bulls which are there
indicated.

[10] See p. 81, note ii.

[11] 1 Cel., 18; 21; 3 Soc., 24; 2 Cel., 1, 8.

[12] _An. Perus._, A. SS., p. 600. Cf. 3 Soc., 60. The three
Orders are contemporary, one might even say, the four, including
among them the one that miscarried among the secular priests
(see below).

In a letter St. Clara speaks of her Order as making only a part
with that of the Brothers: _Sequaris consilia Reverendi Patris
nostri fratris Eliae Ministri generalis totius ordinis_. A. SS.,
Martii, t. i., p. 507.

[13] This point of view is brought into relief by an anecdote in
the _De laudibus_ of Bernard of Besse (Turin MS., 113a). This is
how he ends chap. vii. on the three Orders: _Nec Santus his
contentus ordinibus satagebat omnium generi salutis et
penitentiae viam dare. Unde parochiali cuidam sacerdoti dicenti
sibi quod vellet suus, retenta tamen ecclesia. Frater esse, dato
vivendi et induendi modo, dicitur indixisse ut annuatim,
collectis Eclesiae fructibus daret pro Deo, quod de praeteritis
superesset._

[14] See the lovely story in the _Fior._, 13. Cf. _Spec._, 65a;
_Conform._, 168b. 1.

[15] The text of it was doubtless formerly inserted in chapter
vi. of the Rule granted to the Clarisses of St. Damian, August
9, 1253, by the bull _Solet annuere_. Potthast, 15,086. But this
chapter has been completely changed in many editions. The text
of the _Speculum_, Morin, Rouen 1509, should be read. _Tract_
iii., 226b. The critical study to be made upon this text by
comparing the indications given by the bull _Angelis guadium_ of
May 11, 1238, Sbaralea, i., p. 242, is too long to find a place
here.

[16] 2 Cel., 3, 132. Cf. _Test. B. Clar._

[17] _In illa gravi infirmitate ... faciebat se erigi ... et
sedens filabat._ A. SS., 760e. _Sic vult eas [sorores] operare
manibus suis._ Ib. 762a.

[18] _Fior._ 33.

[19] Rule of 1221, chap xii. _Et nulla penitus mulier ab aliquo
frater recipiatur ad ob