A DISCIPLE Of St. Francis of Assisio, who received him into his Order in
1216, and sent him into Spain, though Wading calls him a layman. The
spirit of poverty which he professed, he inherited of his holy father in
the most perfect degree, and St. Francis commended his charity above all
his other disciples. The gifts of prophecy and miracles rendered him
illustrious both living and after his death, which happened in 1236. His
head is kept at Villa Franca, in the diocese of Asturia, and his body at
Todi in Italy, where he is honored with a particular office ratified by
Gregory IX. See Wading's Annals, published by Fonseca, at Rome, in 1732,
t. 2, pp. 413, 414, also Henschenius, p. 418. Pope Benedict XIV. granted
to the Franciscans for {his} festival the 5th of March.