privileges which can engender disputes--He gives his friars instructions
about their conduct to ecclesiastics--He obtains from the Pope letters
apostolical confirming the approval of the Order--What he decrees in
the chapter--He sends his friars through the whole world--The travels
of his Friars in various parts of the world--In Greece--In Africa--In
Spain and Portugal--In France--In the Low Countries--He himself prepares
to go to the Levant--On the government of the monastery of S. Damian,
and other houses of the same order--He sends six of his friars to
Morocco--What he says to them--He starts on his voyage to Syria, with
twelve companions--He rejects a postulant too much attached to his
parents--A house at Ancona is given to him--He appoints, by means of
a child inspired by God, those who are to accompany him to Syria--He
embarks at Ancona and anchors at the isle of Cyprus--Arrives at
Acre--Distributes his companions in different parts of Syria, and comes
to the army before Damietta--He arrives at the camp before Damietta,
and predicts the ill-success of the battle the Crusaders are about to
give--His prediction is accomplished--He finds out the sultan of
Egypt--Announces to him the truths of the faith, and offers to throw
himself into the fire to prove them--He refuses the sultan's
presents--Is esteemed and respected--The good dispositions with which
he inspires the sultan--He obtains permission to preach in his
States--He receives some disciples from the army of the
Crusaders--Visits the holy places--Some whole monasteries of religious
embrace his Institute--He returns to Italy--Establishes his Order in
various places--Preaches at Bologna with great success--What he says
and does on seeing a house of his Order too much ornamented--He makes
a retreat at Camaldoli--Returns to S. Mary of the Angels--Reads the
thoughts of his companion--Confounds the vanity of Brother
Elias--Abolishes the novelties introduced into the Order by Brother
Elias--In a vision the fortunes of his Order are made known to him--He