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. ↩