Cel., 1, 16. _Videbat Franciscus luporum more sevire
quamplures._

[34] 1 Cel., 73 (cf. 2 Cel., 1, 17; _Spec._, 102a); 3 Soc., 64;
Bon., 78. The fixing of this scene in the winter of 1217-1218
seems hardly to be debatable; Giordano's account (14) in fact
determines the date at which Ugolini became _officially_
protector of the Order; it supposes earlier relations between
Honorius, Francis, and Ugolini. We are therefore led to seek a
date at which these three personages may have met in Rome, and
we arrive thus at the period between December, 1217, and April,
1218.

[35] A word of Brother Giordano's opens the door to certain
conjectures. "My lord," said Francis to Honorius III., in 1220,
"you have given me many fathers (popes) give me a single one to
whom I may turn with the affairs of my Order." (Giord., 14,
_Multos mihi papas dedisti da unum_, ... etc.)

Does not this suggest the idea that the pontiff had perhaps
named a commission of cardinals to oversee the Brothers Minor?
Its deliberations and the events to be related in the following
chapter might have impelled him to issue the bull _Cum dilecti_
of June 11, 1219, which was not an approbation properly so
called, but a safe-conduct in favor of the Franciscans.

[36] He took possession of St. Sabine on February 28, 1218.

[37] 2 Cel., 3, 87. The literal meaning of the phrase is
somewhat ambiguous. The text is: _Vellem, frater Francisce, unam