apostle.

His companions, bearing their precious burden, took the way through the
olive-yards across the plain. From time to time the invalid, unable to
distinguish anything, asked where they were. When they were half way
there, at the hospital of the Crucigeri, where long ago he had tended
the leper, and from whence there was a full view of all the houses of
the city, he begged them to set him upon the ground with his face toward
Assisi, and raising his hand he bade adieu to his native place and
blessed it.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The following is the list of monasteries which, according to
Rodolfo di Tossignano, accepted the ideas of Angelo Clareno
before the end of the thirteenth century: Fermo, Spoleto,
Camerino, Ascoli, Rieti, Foligno, Nursia, Aquila, Amelia:
_Historiarum seraphicae religionis, libri tres_, Venice, 1586, 1
vol., f^o, 155a.

[2] _Spec._, 129b; _Fior._, 19. In some of the stories of this
period the evidence is clear how certain facts have been, little
by little, transformed into miracles. Compare, for example, the
miracle of St. Urbano in Bon., 68, and 1 Cel., 61. See also 2
Cel., 2, 10; Bon., 158 and 159.

[3] 1 Cel., 87; 2 Cel., 2, 11; _Conform._, 148a, 2; Bon., 99.
Upon this visit see 2 Cel., 2, 10; Bon., 158 and 159; 2 Cel., 2,
11; 2 Cel., 3, 36.

[4] The present Italian name of the monastery which has also
been called _Monte-Rainerio_ and _Fonte-Palumbo_.

[5] 1 Cel., 101; 2 Cel., 3, 102; Bon., 67; _Spec._, 134a.

[6] 2 Cel., 3, 66; Bon., 69.

[7] _Fior. ii. consid._ Cf. Roger Bacon, Opus tertium (_ap. Mon.
Germ. hist._, _Script._ t. 28, p. 577). _B. Franciscus jussit
fratri cythariste ut dulcius personaret, quatenus mens
excitaretur ad harmonias coelestes quas pluries andivit. Mira
enim musicae super omnes scientias et spectanda potestas._

[8] Village three hours' walk northward from Rieti. Francis's
cell still remains on the mountain, three-quarters of an hour
from the place.

[9] 2 Cel., 3, 71; cf. _Spec._, 43a.

[10] Chapel still standing, a few minutes' walk from Rieti. 2
Cel., 3, 70; _Spec._, 15a, 43a.

[11] 2 Cel., 2, 14; Bon., 167; 2 Cel., 3, 10; Bon., 58; _Spec._,
122b.

[12] Wadding, _ann. 1213_, n. 14, rightly places St. Urbano in
the county of Narni. _L'Eremo di S. Urbano_ is about half an