176; January 21, 1217, _gratiarum omnium_, ib., no.243.Vide 284, 1039, 1156, 1208.

It is needless to continue this enumeration.

Very much the same could be done for the other Orders; whence the conclusion that if the Brothers Minor alone are forgotten in this shower of favors, it is because they decidedly wished to be.

It must be admitted that immediately upon Francis's death they made up for lost time.
[12] The authenticity of this passage is put beyond doubt by Ubertino di Casal's citation.

_Archiv._, iii., p.53.