chapter might have impelled him to issue the bull _Cum dilecti_

of June 11, 1219, which was not an approbation properly so

called, but a safe-conduct in favor of the Franciscans.

[36] He took possession of St. Sabine on February 28, 1218.

[37] 2 Cel., 3, 87. The literal meaning of the phrase is

somewhat ambiguous. The text is: _Vellem, frater Francisce, unam

fieri religionem tuam et meam et in Ecclesia pari forma nos

vivere_. _Spec._ 27b. The echo of this attempt is found in

Thierry d'Apolda, _Vie de S. Dominique_ (A. SS., Augusti, t. i.,

p. 572 d): _S. Dominicus in oscula sancta ruens et sinceros

amplexus, dixit: Tu es socius meus, tu curres pariter mecum,

stemus simul, nullus adversarius prævalebit_. Bernard of Besse

says: _B. Dominicus tanta B. Francisco devotione cohesit ut

optatam ab eo cordam sub inferiori tunica devotissimi cingeret,

cujus et suam Religionem unam velle fieri diceret, ipsumque pro

sanctitate cæteris sequendem religiosis assereret._ Turin MS.,

102b.

[38] At the chapter held at Bologna at Whitsunday, 1220. The

bull _Religiosam vitam_ (Privilege of Notre Dame de Prouille) of

March 30, 1218, enumerates the possessions of the Dominicans.

Ripolli, _Bull. Præd._, t. i., p. 6. Horoy, _Honorii opera_, t.

ii., col. 684.

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