487.

[35] Bull _Quia qui seminant_ of May 12, 1220. Ripalli, _Bul.
Præd._, t. i., p. 10 (Potthast, 6249).

[36] _Mon. Germ. hist. Script._, t. 23, p. 376. This passage is
of extreme importance because it sums up in a few lines the
ecclesiastical policy of Honorius III. After speaking of the
perils with which the _Humiliati_ threatened the Church,
Burchard adds: _Quæ volens corrigere dominus papa ordinem
Predicatorum instituit et confirmavit._ Now these _Humiliati_
were an approved Order. But Burchard, while classing them with
heretics beside the Poor Men of Lyons, expresses in a word the
sentiments of the papacy toward them; it had for them an
invincible repugnance, and not wishing to strike them directly
it sought a side issue. Similar tactics were followed with
regard to the Brothers Minor, with that overplus of caution
which the prodigious success of the Order inspired. It all
became useless when in 1221 Brother Elias became Francis's
vicar, and especially when, after the latter's death, he had all
the liberty necessary for directing the Order according to the
views of Ugolini, now become Gregory IX.

[37] 1 Cel., 25; cf. A. SS., p. 581. Pietro di Catana had the
title of doctor of laws, Giord., 11, which entirely disagrees
with what is related of Brother Pietro, 3 Soc., 28 and 29. Cf.
Bon., 28 and 29; _Spec._, 5b; _Fior._, 2; _Conform._, 47; 52b,
2; _Petrus vir litteratus erat et nobilis_, Giord., 12.

[38] We know nothing more of him except that after his death he