shouted to heaven, filled the air with her cries, and called upon the virgin Clare: ⁷"O holy and glorious Clare, return my poor son to me! ⁸Return," she said, "return my poor little boy to his mother, ⁹because, if you don't, I will drown myself."

¹⁰The neighbors ran after the wolf [and] found the boy who had been brought into the woods by the wolf and next to him a dog that was licking his wounds. ¹¹The ferocious beast had first thrust his fangs into the [boy's] neck; then, in order to carry off its prey more easily, it had filled its jaws with the boy's loins. But it had not left in either place any sign of its sudden attack. ¹²After obtaining the answer of her prayers, the woman ran off with her neighbors to her helper and poured out abundant thanks to God and the holy Clare, showing everyone who wished to see the boy's various wounds.

61. ¹³A certain young girl from the village of Cannara was sitting in a field on a certain clear day and another woman had placed her head in her lap. ¹⁴Behold, a man-eating wolf suddenly made quick, furtive steps toward its prey. ¹⁵The young girl saw him, in fact, but she was not afraid since she thought it was a dog. ¹⁶While the woman directed her attention to inspecting the [other's] hair, which she had just begun doing, the savage beast jumped on her, enclosed her face in his massive jaws, and carried off its prey to the woods. ¹⁷The dumbfounded woman got up immediately and, recalling Saint Clare, cried out: "Help, Saint Clare, help! I now entrust that young girl to you!" ¹⁸At that moment—it's wonderful to state—that girl who had been carried off in the teeth of the wolf was reprimanding it ¹⁹and was saying: "Will you take me any further, you thief, after I have been entrusted to such a virgin?" ²⁰Confused by this reproof, it immediately placed the girl gently on the ground and, as though it were a thief caught off guard, quickly departed.

The Canonization of the Virgin, Saint Clare [Chapter XLI]

62. ¹When the throne of Saint Peter was occupied by the most gentle prince, Lord Alexander IV, a man who was a friend of all holiness, who was both a guardian of religious and a firm supporter of the Orders, the news of these wonderful things spread

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clamores in excelsum levat, et ululatibus aerem complens, virginem Claram invocat, dicens: Sancta et gloriosa Clara, redde mihi miserum filium meum. ⁸Redde, ait, redde infelici matri natellum. ⁹Quod si non feceris meipsam aquis necabo.

¹⁰Currentes itaque vicini post lupum, reperiunt infantulum a lupo in sylva dimissum, et canem iuxta puerum eius vulnera deligentem. ¹¹Cervici primos iniecerat morsus bestia fera: dehinc ut praedam levius ferret, ipsius pueri renibus suas impleverat fauces, et utrobique non levis attactus signa reliquerat. ¹²Voti compos effecta mulier, cum suis vicinis ad suam properat adiutricem et pueri varias plagas omnibus videre volentibus monstrans, Deo et sanctae Clarae gratias copiosas exsolvit.

61 ¹Puella quaedam de castro Cannarii, clara die in agro sedebat, in cuius sinu mulier altera reclinaverat caput. ²Et ecce lupus hominum rapax, furtivos ad praedam concitat gressus. ³Quem tamen puella vidit, sed quia canem credidit, non expavit. ⁴Cumque infantula coepto intenderet scrutinio capillorum, efferatur in illam bestia truculenta, eiusque vultum suo vasto hiatu concludens, praedam portabat ad sylvam. ⁵Surgit protinus mulier stupefacta et sanctae Clarae memor, clamitat, dicens: Succurre, sancta Clara, succurre; tibi in hac hora puellam istam commendo. ⁶Ipsa denique, mirabile dictu, quae lupi dentibus portabatur, contra lupum invehitur, ⁷dicens: Portabis me tu latro ulterius, tantae Virgini commendatam? ⁸Qua invectione confusus, puellam statim in terra molliter posuit, et quasi latro deprehensus, festine discessit.

De canonizatione sanctae Clarae Virginis.

62 ¹Residente autem in sede Petri clementissimo principe domino Alexandro IIII, viro totius sanctitatis amico, qui et Religiosorum tutela et Religionum firma erat columna, dum horum mirabilium relatio curreret,