This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...' It may be noted that such approbation was not necessary at that time, nor had former founders of Orders usually solicited it, since no ecclesiastical law had then made it obligatory.2 St. Francis, therefore, was, as it were, anticipating the mind of the Church. Such was the orthodoxy of his opinions ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...' It may be noted that such approbation was not necessary at that time, nor had former founders of Orders usually solicited it, since no ecclesiastical law had then made it obligatory.2 St. Francis, therefore, was, as it were, anticipating the mind of the Church. Such was the orthodoxy of his opinions regarding the Pope that, before undertaking the great work of founding his Order, he deemed it essential to secure the approval of the Apostolic See. How did he set about obtaining the approbation? After his Rule was written, St. Francis, with his disciples, set out for Rome. They first sought out Guido, Bishop of Assisi, who happened to be in Rome. By him St. Francis was introduced to Cardinal John of St. Paul, Bishop of the Sabine, a holy and learned man, who in turn presented St. Francis to Innocent III. There are many 1 Tres Socii, Cap. I. a It was made so in 1215 by the Fourth Lateran Council. different accounts of this interview. Suffice it to say that, after mature deliberation and minute investigation, in which Bishop Guido and the Cardinal of St. Paul materially assisted, the Pope, despite the protest of some members of the Sacred College who regarded the undertaking as unsound and unattainable, approved the new manner of life. M. Sabatier (p. 101) declares that the expression "approbation of the Rule," by which this act of Innocent III. has always been designated, is erroneous, and avers, with great parade of quotation and equal confidence of assertion, that the Pope "simply consented to suspend judgement" regarding St. Francis's petition. But this opinion, most improbable in itself, is totally unsupported by proof, and rests on no other grounds than the forced interpretation of a few ambiguous passages in ancient writers. It is...
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