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Life of St. Francis of Assisi

CHAPTER V
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Almost every village in Umbria has its bishop, so that their importance is hardly greater than that of the cure of a French canton.

Furthermore, several pontifical documents throw a sombre light on Guido's character.

In a chapter of the decretals of Honorius III.

(_Quinta compil._, lib.ii., tit.iii., cap.

i.) is given a complaint against this bishop, brought before the curia by the Crucigeri of the hospital _San Salvatore delle Pareti_ (suburbs of Assisi), of having maltreated two of their number, and having stolen a part of the wine belonging to the convent: _pro eo quod Aegidium presbyterum, et fratrem eorem conversum violentas manus injecerat ...


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