Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier (best historical biographies txt) 📕

of revolt against the decisions of Rome.


FOOTNOTES:

[1] The text was published in 1620 by Spoelberch (in his
Speculum vitæ B. Francisci , Antwerp, 2 vols., 12mo, ii., pp.
103-106), after the copy addressed to Brother Gregory,
minister in France, and then preserved in the convent of the
Recollects in Valenciennes. It was reproduced by Wadding (Ann.
1226, no. 44) and the Bollandists (pp. 668 and 669).

So late an appearance of a capital document might have left
room for doubts; there is no longer reason for any, since the
publication of the chronicle of Giordano di Giano, who relates
the sending of this letter (Giord., 50). The Abbé Amoni has
also published this text (at the close of his Legenda trium
Sociorum , Rome, 1880, pp. 105-109), but according to his
deplorable habit, he neglects to tell whence he has drawn it.
This is the more to be regretted since he gives a variant of
the first order: Nam diu ante mortem instead of Non diu ,
as Spoelberch's text has it. The reading Nam diu appears
preferable from a philological point of view.

[2] Engraved in Saint François d'Assise, Paris, 4to, 1885, p. 277.

[3] Bibliotheca Patrum. Lyons, 1677, xxv., adv.
Albigenses , lib. ii., cap. 11., cf. iii., 14 and 15.
Reproduced in the A. SS., p. 652.

[4] The curious may consult the following sources: Salimbeni,
ann. 1250-- Conform. , 171b 2, 235a 2; Bon., 200; Wadding,
ann. 1228 , no. 78; A. SS., p. 800. Manuscript 340 of the
Sacro Convento contains (fo. 55b-56b) four of these hymns.
Cf. Archiv. i., p. 485.

[5] See in particular Hase: Franz v. Assisi . Leipsic, 1
vol., 8vo., 1856. The learned professor devotes no less than
sixty closely printed pages to the study of the stigmata,
142-202.

[6] The more I think about it, the more incapable I become of
attributing any sort of weight to this argument from the
disappearance of the body; for in fact, if there had been any
pious fraud on Elias's part, he would on the contrary have
displayed the corpse.

[7] See, for example, 2 Cel., 3, 86, as well as the encyclical
of Giovanni di Parma and Umberto di Romano, in 1225.

[8] The following among many others: Francis had particularly
high breeches made for him, to hide the wound in the side
(Bon., 201). At the moment of the apparition, which took place
during the night, so great a light flooded the whole country,
that merchants lodging in the inns of Casentino saddled their
beasts and set out on their way. Fior., iii. consid.

Hase, in his study, is continually under the weight of the bad
impression made upon him by Bonaventura's deplorable
arguments; he sees the other witness only through him. I think
that if he had read simply Thomas of Celano's first Life, he
would have arrived at very different conclusions.

[9] The most important document is manuscript 344 of the
archives of Sacro Convento at Assisi. Liber indulgentiæ S.
Mariæ de Angelis sive de Portiuncula in quo libra ego fr.
Franciscus Bartholi de Assisio posui quidquid potui sollicite
invenire in legendis antiquis et novis b. Francisci et in
aliis dictis sociorum ejus de loco eodem et commendatione
ipsius loci et quidquid veritatis et certitudinis potui
invenire de sacra indulgentia prefati loci, quomodo scilicet
fuit impetrata et data b. Francisco de miraculis ipsius
indulgentiæ quæ ipsam declarant certam et veram. Bartholi
lived in the first half of the fourteenth century. His work is
still unpublished, but Father Leo Patrem M. O. is preparing it
for publication. The name of this learned monk gives every
guaranty for the accuracy of this difficult work; meanwhile a
detailed description and long extracts may be found in the
Miscellanea (ii., 1887). La storia del perdono di Francesco
de Bartholi , by Don Michele Faloci Pulignani, pp. 149-153
(cf. Archiv. , i., p. 486). See also in the Miscellanea (i.,
1886, p. 15) a bibliographical note containing a detailed list
of fifty-eight works (cf. ibid., pp. 48, 145). The legend
itself is found in the Speculum , 69b-83a, and in the
Conformities , 151b-157a. In these two collections it is
still found laboriously worked in and is not an integral part
of the rest of the work. In the latter, Bartolemmeo di Pisa
has carried accuracy so far as to copy from end to end all the
documents that he had before him, and as they belong to
different periods he thus gives us several phases of the
development of the tradition. The most complete work is that
of the Recollect Father Grouwel: Historia critica S.
Indulgentiæ B. Mariæ Angelorum vulgo de Portiuncula ... contra
Libellos aliquos anonymo ac famosos nuper editos , Antwerp,
1726, 1 vol., 8vo. pp. 510. The Bollandist Suysken also makes
a long study of it (A. SS., pp. 879-910), as also the
Recollect Father Candide Chalippe, Vie de saint François
d'Assise , 3 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1874 (the first edition is of
1720), vol. iii., pp. 190-327.

In each of these works we find what has been said in all the
others. The numerous writings against the Indulgence are
either a collection of vulgarities or dogmatic treatises; I
refrain from burdening these pages with them. The principal
ones are indicated by Grouwel and Chalippe.

Among contemporaries Father Barnabas of Alsace: Portiuncula
oder Geschichte Unserer lieben Frau von den Engeln (Rixheim,
1 vol., 8vo. 1884), represents the tradition of the Order, and
the Abbé Le Monnier ( Histoire de Saint François , 2 vols.,
8vo, Paris, 1889), moderate Catholic opinion in non-Franciscan
circles.

The best summary is that of Father Panfilo da Magliano in his
Storia compendiosa . It has been completed and amended in the
German translation: Geschichte des h. Franciscus und der
Franziskaner übersetzt und bearbeitet von Fr. Quintianus
Müller, vol. i., Munich, 1883, pp. 233-259.

[10] 2 Cel., 1, 13; 3 Soc., 56; Bon., 24.

[11] Conform. , 239b, 2.

[12] See in particular Archiv. , ii., p. 259, and the bull of
February 7, 1246. Potthast, 12007; Glassberger, ann. 1244
( An. fr. t. ii., p. 69).

[13] Is qui ecclesiam , March. 6, 1245, Potthast, 11576.

[14] 2 Cel., 1, 12 (cf. Conform. , 218a, 1); 3 Soc., 56;
Spec. , 32b ff.; 49b ff.; Conform. , 144a, 2.

[15] Conform. , 169a; 2, 217b. 1 ff. Cf. Fior. , Amoni's ed.
(Appendix to the Codex of the Bib. Angelica), p. 378.

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