We are therefore led to seek a date at which these three personages may have met in Rome, and we arrive thus at the period between December, 1217, and April, 1218.
[35] A word of Brother Giordano's opens the door to certain conjectures.

"My lord," said Francis to Honorius III., in 1220, "you have given me many fathers (popes) give me a single one to whom I may turn with the affairs of my Order." (Giord., 14, _Multos mihi papas dedisti da unum_, ...

etc.) Does not this suggest the idea that the pontiff had perhaps named a commission of cardinals to oversee the Brothers Minor?
Its deliberations and the events to be related in the following chapter might have impelled him to issue the bull _Cum dilecti_ of June 11, 1219, which was not an approbation properly so called, but a safe-conduct in favor of the Franciscans.
[36] He took possession of St.Sabine on February 28, 1218.
[37] 2 Cel., 3, 87.

The literal meaning of the phrase is somewhat ambiguous.

The text is: _Vellem, frater Francisce, unam fieri religionem tuam et meam et in Ecclesia pari forma nos vivere_.