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Life of St. Francis of Assisi

CHAPTER III
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[32] Bull of June 6, 1205, Potthast, 2237; Migne, vii., 83.

This Cardinal Leo (of the presbyterial title of Holy Cross of Jerusalem) was one most valued by Innocent III.

To him and Ugolini, the future Gregory IX., he at this epoch confided the most delicate missions (for example, in 1209, they were named legates to Otho IV.).

This embassy shows in what importance the pope held the affairs of Assisi, though it was a very small city.
[33] Not once do we find him fighting heretics.

The early Dominicans, on the contrary, are incessantly occupied with arguing.


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