The sentiment is even more tender, and it is hard to explain its neglect except by an unjust caprice of fate.
Stabat Mater speciosa Juxtum foenum gaudiosa Dum jacebat parvulus.
Quae gaudebat et ridebat Exsultabat cum videbat Nati partum inclyti.
Fac me vere congaudere Jesulino cohaerere Donec ego vixero.[28] FOOTNOTES: [1] All this took place with prodigious rapidity.

The dimensions of the Basilica of Assisi, the plans of which were made in 1228, no more permits it to be considered as a conventual chapel than Santa-Croce in Florence, San Francesco in Sienna, or the Basilica San Antonio at Padua, monuments commenced between 1230 and 1240.

Already before 1245 one party of the episcopate utters a cry of alarm, in which he speaks of nothing less than of closing the door of the secular churches, which have become useless.

He complains with incredible bitterness that the Minor and Preaching Friars have absolutely supplanted the parochial clergy.

This letter may be found in Pierre de la Vigne, addressed at once to Frederick II.