The friars and how they came to England;

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gine us the more natural forma os inovo and

his contemporaries. And yet the deep humanlaesing of the Friara Was intensely spiritual, as is evident in the ari Which in inspired. In thela οὐ persons in proved the Catholio principio that the antithesis of spiritualiu is not humani ty but brutati . mn is nevermore truly human than When he is most spiritual, and neVer spiritual When he is not

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ine Floretii. The m ness of the English sola reflected in his style, just as the su hine ofItaly pervades the later book. Yet in the one

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112 ΤΗE FRIARSas tu the other inere is the fame hein and inrigorating atmosphere of mind: the samo direcineas and simplici of the Franciscanspirit. Thomas of Ecclesion has ali the impli est belles in his Order Whiin is the cham os an early chronicier; and beoause of his bellei he hasno mi iving a ut manifesting occasionalty the

animaled the Friam, of thela love of povero and deep spiritualio; he also telis the st y of the

Friar Who Was Onoe a very Spiritual man, but

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Bartholom- oi Pisa, in his Liber Conformitαtum relates a som-hat similar incident of the Friam Who Went to Oxlard. On their

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ine soldier saW the prinis of the Nood homineis nised seet in the wood, he Who had beenthe consoler stad With a fore of Aelscongratulation to his companion, fBrother, Was not that

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These incidenis potnt to another chapter in the chronioles of the early Friam WhichEdoleston did not see fit to grue M. ne oneinstance of ill- age recorded by him refers to

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influenos and fame, it is to be noted that in Were particularly gealous for the observance of the rese of Ver . Eooleston records hoW that gealous uphesder of the primitive simplicio, JAn a Parma, seventa Minister-Generat of tho Order, pruised the English prorinoe sor iis spiritos observance, Wishing that it might be set in the centre of the Worid to be an example to allother proVinces. And it Was the English Friam Who most strenuousty Mood for the primitiverule, When there Was Some question os modi*ing iis r Our.' d so it Was even unis the end. Amongstali the provinces of the Order the Englishmaintained iis reputation as that inita Wasmost true to Franciscan poVer . There Were indoed, relaxations, and in some of the houses

the tradition of pover as but indisserenib

i Chap. xii