But Burchard, while classing them with heretics beside the Poor Men of Lyons, expresses in a word the sentiments of the papacy toward them; it had for them an invincible repugnance, and not wishing to strike them directly it sought a side issue.

Similar tactics were followed with regard to the Brothers Minor, with that overplus of caution which the prodigious success of the Order inspired.

It all became useless when in 1221 Brother Elias became Francis's vicar, and especially when, after the latter's death, he had all the liberty necessary for directing the Order according to the views of Ugolini, now become Gregory IX.
[37] 1 Cel., 25; cf.

A.SS., p.581.Pietro di Catana had the title of doctor of laws, Giord., 11, which entirely disagrees with what is related of Brother Pietro, 3 Soc., 28 and 29.

Cf.
Bon., 28 and 29; _Spec._, 5b; _Fior._, 2; _Conform._, 47; 52b, 2; _Petrus vir litteratus erat et nobilis_, Giord., 12.
[38] We know nothing more of him except that after his death he had the gift of miracles.Giord., 11; _Conform._, 62a, 1.
[39] He was not an ordinary man; a remarkable administrator and orator (Eccl., 6), he was minister in France before 1224 and again in 1240, thanks to the zeal with which he had adopted the ideas of Brother Elias.