trick of the devil--He visits Mount Garganus--His presence silences
a demoniac--He learns at S. Mary of the Angels the success of the
German mission--Bids Antony preach--Gives Antony permission to teach
theology to the brethren--Alexander Hales enters the Order--Jesus
Christ appoints the day for the Indulgence of the Portiuncula--He
obtains from the Pope a confirmation of the same day--Promulgates it,
with seven bishops--He has a revelation about his Rule--God makes
known to him that he must abridge it--The Holy Spirit dictates it to
him--Some entreat him to moderate it--Jesus Christ tells him it must
be kept to the very letter--His brethren receive it--He declares it
comes from Jesus Christ, and speaks in praise of it--He obtains a bull
from the Pope, in confirmation of the Rule--Is attacked by devils--
Celebrates the feast of Christmas with much fervor--Our Lord appears
to him as an infant--His sentiments on the celebration of
feasts--Discovers a stratagem of the devil--He commands one of his
dead brethren to cease working miracles--Draws up a rule for Clare and
her daughters--Appears with his arms stretched out in the form of a
cross while S. Antony was preaching--Foretells a conversion which
immediately came about--He goes into retreat on Mount Alvernus--His
contemplation and raptures--Jesus Christ promises him special favors--He
fasts rigorously--A piece of his writing delivers his companion from
a temptation--What he had to suffer from the devil--He prepares for
martyrdom--He receives extraordinary favors in prayer--His perfect
conformity to the will of God--Jesus Christ crucified appears to him
under the figure of a Seraphim--Receives the impression of the wounds
of Jesus Christ--He composes canticles full of the love of God--Tells
his brethren of the Stigmata--They are seen and touched--He leaves
Mount Alvernus, to return to S. Mary of the Angels--Cures a child of
dropsy--Other miracles which he performed on the way--He strengthens
himself with new fervor in the service of God--His patience in great