We must correct the Bollandist text: _Inter quos quidam de Assisio puer ac simplicem animum gerens_, by: _quidam de Assisio pium ac simplicem_, etc.

The period at which we have arrived is very clear as a whole: the picture which the Three Companions give us is true with a truth which forces conviction at first sight; but neither they nor Celano are giving an official report.

Later on men desired to know precisely in what order the early disciples came, and they tortured the texts to find an answer.

The same course was followed with regard to the first missionary journeys.

But on both sides they came up against impossibilities and contradictions.