What does it matter whether there were two, three, or four missions before the papal approbation?
Of what consequence are the names of those early disciples who are entirely secondary in the history of the Franciscan movement?
All these things took place with much more simplicity and spontaneity than is generally supposed.

There is a wide difference between the plan of a house drawn up by an architect and a view of the same house painted by an artist.

The second, though abounding in inexactitudes, gives a more just notion of the reality than the plan.

The same is true of the Franciscan biographies.
[3] 1 Cel., 24.

Bernard de Besse is the first to call him B.di Quintavalle: _De laudibus_, fo.