holds the chapter in which he deposes Brother Elias, and in his place
substitutes Peter of Catania--He renounces the generalship--Will not
receive anything from novices entering his Order--He learns the news
of the martyrdom of the friars he had sent to Morocco--What he says
on the subject of their martyrdom--The martyrdom of these friars is
the cause of the vocation of S. Antony of Padua--His friars pass into
England--He visits some convents--Receives the Vicar General's
resignation, and re-appoints, by the command of God, Brother Elias to
his place--He holds a chapter, and sends missionaries to Germany



BOOK IV


S. Francis begins his Third Order of Penance--Draws up the rule for
it--What his idea was in founding this Order--He returns to S. Mary
of the Angels--Sends Agnes, the sister of Clare, to Florence, to be
Abbess there--He obtains from Jesus Christ the Indulgence of S. Mary
of the Angels or of the Portiuncula--Pope Honorius III. grants him the
same indulgence--Clare and others, hearing him talk of God, are ravished
in ecstasy--He cannot bear the distinction of persons which Brother
Elias made--Makes a terrible prediction--He gives his blessings to
seven of his brethren, to go and preach the faith to the Moors, and
they are martyred--He makes a journey, which is attended with
remarkable circumstances--Cures a cripple--Mixes with the poor, and
eats with them--Foretells of an infant, that he would one day be
Pope--He changes the bed of thorns into which S. Benedict had thrown
himself, into a rose-bush, and performs other great miracles--Goes to
honor the relics of S. Andrew, and those of S. Nicholas--Discovers a