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28 Therefore, on the advice of the holy brother, he sold everything he had, and restored what had to be returned, and distributed all the rest to the poor according to the holy Gospel; and offering himself to God, he entered the Order of Lesser Brothers, and with laudable perseverance observing his promise he completed a holy life.a His other old partners in crime and accomplices, with heartfelt remorse, changed their lives for the better. Thus the holy simplicity of those brothers bore fruit not by preaching about literary authorities or Aristotle, but about the pains of hell and the glory of paradise in brief words, as it says in the Holy Rule.b
Thanks be to God!
Amen.
XLVIII
THE WONDERFUL DEEDS OF SOME BROTHER OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MARCHES AND HOW THE BLESSED VIRGIN APPEARED TO BROTHER CONRAD IN THE WOODS AT FORANO
1 The Province of the Marches of Ancona was like a beautiful starry sky, with outstanding stars, that is, with holy Lesser Brothers who high and low before God and neighbor shone with radiant virtues, and whose memory is truly held in divine blessing. Sir 45:1 c
2 Among them there were some like the greater stars more brilliant than others,d such as Brother Lucido the Elder, who was truly shining in holiness and burning Jn 5:35 with divine charity. His renowned gift of speech, taught by the Holy Spirit, produced admirable fruit.e
- Salimbene ends the story differently by narrating that the now converted tyrant entered the city, was recognized, captured, and hanged by the people. Ibid, 569.
- This passage echoes one of Angelo Clareno's HTrb III 20: "and after they have left prayer, they prefer the painstaking and sterile wisdom of Aristotle, more eagerly yearn to hear natural and dialectic masters, and ardently strive to have and multiply scholars of these sciences." Cf. Angelo Clareno, Liber Chronicarum sive Tribulationum Ordinis Minorum, ed. Giovanni Boccali, intro. Felice Accroca, Italian trans., Marino Bigaroni (Sta. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 1998), 336-8.
- This opening paragraph serves as an introduction to the third part of DBF, that is, Chapters XLVIII-LIX, which deal with incidents involving the Lesser Brothers of the Italian Province of the Marches. According to Giralomo Gulubovich, Biblioteca Bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa 2 (Ad Claras Aquas, Quaracchi: Collegium S. Bonaventurae, 1906), 216, it was one of the first eleven provinces established in 1217.
- There is a parallel between these paragraphs, 2-6, and ChrXXIVG 409-10.
- Lucido is praised in 2MP 85: "the solicitude of Brother Lucido who had the greatest care and concern and did not want to remain in any place for a month, and when he enjoyed staying some place, would immediately leave, saying: 'We do not have a dwelling here on earth, but in heaven.' " He is also mentioned in HTrb III 75 as having lived with Bernard, and HTrb IV 158 with James of Massa, Juniper, and Giles.