While we declare these things about the Saint with a rather great confidence, we are not depending upon foolish fables or the absurdities of an inane imagination. For a long time now we have had great assurance about this. When we held lesser positions and were applying ourselves for service in the house of our aforementioned predecessor, by a gift of God we merited at that time to have an intimate knowledge of this confessor.^a Therefore, let no one attack this Saint who carried in his body the triumphant Stigmata of Christ.

Given at Anagni, on the twenty-ninth day of October [1255], in the first year of our pontificate.

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Sane de praefato Sancto haec certius afferentes, indoctas fabulas, seu vanae inventionis deliramenta non sequimur: cum ea Nobis dudum nota fecerit plenior fides rerum; quando videlicet in minoribus constituti Confessoris ejusdem familiarem ex munere Divino meruimus habere notitiam, praefati Praedecessoris nostri domesticis obsequiis tunc temporis insistendo. . . Nemo itaque eidem Sancto audeat de cetero esse molestus in corpore suo Christi triumphalia Stigmata praeferenti. . .

Datum Anagniae iv. Kalendas Novembris, Pontificatus Nostri Anno I.