In the evening of his days the prophet of Fiore was able, like a new Simeon, to utter his _Nunc dimittis_, and for a few years Christendom could turn in amazement to Assisi as to a new Bethlehem.
FOOTNOTES: [1] Bull of June 8, 1198, _Quamvis_.

Migne, i., col.

220; Potthast, 265.
[2] For example, Pierre, Cardinal of St.Chryzogone and former Bishop of Meaux, who in a single election refused the dazzling offer of five hundred silver marks.

Alexander III., Migne's edition, _epist._ 395.
[3] _Fasciculus rerum expetend.

et fugiend._, t.ii., 7, pp.
254, 255 (Brown, 1690).
[4] John of Salisbury, _Policrat._ Migne, v.