Chapter

 1 1   |         special defender of the Friars Minor. Brother Bernard,
 2 4   |     were to please God that the Friars Minor should give, in all
 3 4   |           O Brother Leo, if the Friars Minor were to make the lame
 4 4   |           O Brother Leo, if the Friars Minor knew all languages;
 5 4   |      little lamb of God! if the Friars Minor could speak with the
 6 4   |           O Brother Leo, if the Friars Minor had the gift of preaching
 7 4   |      world, and that the humble friars, like little birds, should
 8 5   |      custom, when all the other friars were still asleep. The said
 9 5   | contrivance. When all the other friars were fast asleep, St Francis
10 6   |         more than five thousand friars were present.~The faithful
11 6   |         more than five thousand friars were present. Amongst them
12 6   |         founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, who chanced to
13 6   |        he went there with seven friars of his Order. A certain
14 6   |        and devotion. Seeing the friars all seated in the plain
15 6   |        multitude; each group of friars was engaged either in prayer,
16 6   |       provinces from whence the friars came; so that this Chapter
17 6   |          Chapter of mats". ~The friars had no other beds but the
18 6   |    finished his sermon, all the friars began to pray. Yet St Dominic,
19 6   |      name of God, I condemn all friars of my Order who shall seek
20 8   |         my son, that we are all Friars Minor, who are come from
21 10  |         with St Francis and the friars as if they had been hens
22 XXIV|        will send thee two of my friars, who will administer to
23 XXIV|  Francis appeared to two of his friars, and ordered them without
24 XXIV|      holy baptism from the said friars, he was regenerated in the
25 1   |        by my infirmity, but the friars thou hast sent to serve
26 2   |      answered: "I am one of the Friars Minor." The porter said
27 2   |         in, for he is one of my friars." As soon as he had entered,
28 3   |         two scholars who became friars, and how he delivered one
29 3   |      leave the world and become friars in his Order. And it having
30 3   |         one of the most perfect friars in the world; and finally
31 18  |         with holy and exemplary friars, who, like the bright luminaries
32 21  |        Stefano, where one of my Friars Minor is preaching; take
33 22  |      died, at the time when the friars, at the demand of the Lords
34 22  |        above those of the other friars, who, not being less holy
35 22  |        above those of the other friars; for, thanks be to God,
36 22  |        same things of the other friars, I would treat their bones
37 22  |   wonderful things for his holy friars. ~To the praise and glory
38 24  |         saw in a vision all the friars minor in the world in the
39 24  |          and these men were all Friars Minor; and there were as
40 24  |     many brethren as there were friars in each province; and he
41 24  |       informed of the number of friars in the Order, and in each
42 29  |         the ground; and all the friars with the men and women who