The central idea is the same as in the parable of poverty.

This story, though not referable to any source, has nevertheless its importance, since it shows how in the year 1300 a man who had all the documents before his eyes, represented to himself Francis's early steps.
[20] Bon., 36.
[21] The attempt of Durand of Huesca to create a mendicant order has not yet been studied with sufficient minuteness.

Chief of the Waldenses of Aragon, he was present in 1207 at the conference of Pamiers, and decided to return to the Church.
Received with kindness by the pope he at first had a great success, and by 1209 had established communities in Aragon, at Carcassonne, Narbonne, Beziers, Nimes, Uzes, Milan.

We find in this movement all the lineaments of the institute of St.
Dominic; it was an order of priests to whom theological studies were recommended.

They disappeared almost completely in the storm of the Albigensian crusade.