for, and conduct during, the mission--He returns near to Assisi, where
he receives four more disciples--He assembles all his
disciples--Composes a Rule, and goes to obtain the Pope's approval--He
makes a marvellous conversion--He knows miraculously what will happen
to him at Rome--He is at first repulsed by Pope Innocent III., but is
afterwards received favorably--Difficulties on the approbation of his
Rule--He overcomes them by an address he makes the Pope--The Pope
approves his Rule, and accumulates favors on it--He leaves Rome with
his friars for the valley of Spoleto--God provides for his
necessities--He stops at a deserted church--Consults God on his mission,
and returns to the cottage of Rivo-torto--His sufferings there--The
instructions he gives--God shows him to his brethren under a most
marvellous aspect--The church of S. Mary of the Angels is given to
him--He establishes himself there with his Friars



BOOK II


He receives many novices--Instructs and models them--Sends them to
different provinces of Italy--What he says on this occasion--He departs
for Tuscany, and passes by Perugia, where he makes a prediction which
is accomplished--Many young men enter his Order--They build a house
for him near Cortona--His miraculous fast during Lent--He commands the
devils, and they obey him--He cures many miraculously--He preaches at
Florence--Makes a prediction--Preaches in various places in
Tuscany--What his friars are doing in other places--He preaches the
Lent at Assisi, with great fruit--He consecrates, to Jesus Christ,
Clare, and, Agnes, her sister--Establishes Clare and Agnes in the