• Peter Bernadone, the father of St. Francis, was a wool-merchant. Of this humble origin the saint was not ashamed. ↩
• The permission to establish his religious Order, granted by Pope Innocent III , in 1214. ↩
• Better here in heaven by the Angels, than on earth by Franciscan friars in their churches, as the custom was. Or perhaps, as Buti interprets it, better above in the glory of Paradise, “where is the College of all the Saints,” than here in the Sun. ↩
• The permission to found the Order of Minor Friars, or Franciscans, granted by Pope Innocent III , in 1214, was confirmed by Pope Honorius III , in 1223. ↩
• The title of Archimandrite, or Patriarch, was given in the Greek Church to one who had supervision over many convents. ↩
• Namely, before the Sultan of Egypt in his camp near Damietta. ↩
• In the words of Ben Jonson, “Potential merit stands for actual, Where only opportunity doth want, Not will nor power.” ↩