dead--Count Orlando gives him Mount Alverna--God miraculously protects him--He preaches in Piedmont and passes into Spain--Works a miraculous cure there--The king, Alphonso IX, permits him to establish his Order there--He receives houses there--A violent sickness prevents him going to Morocco--His actions whilst he is delayed in Spain--He returns to Italy--His route thither--He arrives at S. Mary of the Angels, and disapproves a building there--He goes to Mount Alverna--Is beaten by devils--Mortifies his sense, and taste--Makes water spring from a rock--Visits the mountain--Converts there a celebrated brigand--Leaves for Rome--Discovers some relics by revelation--Makes predictions, and performs miracles and conversions--Arrives at Rome whilst the Council of Lateran is sitting--The Pope declares to the Council that he has approved the Rule--He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, whither he returns--He holds the chapter and sends his friars to various countries--He thinks of going to Paris--Reunites an illustrious family that had been divided--Rejoices in his poverty and asks of God a greater love of holy poverty--SS. Peter and Paul appear to him at Rome--His alliance with S. Dominic--He goes to Florence, where Cardinal Hugolin dissuades him from going to Paris--He returns to the Valley of Spoleto, and sends three of his disciples to France--A celestial vision induces him to ask of the Pope a cardinal protector for his Order--What he says on this subject--He preaches before the Pope--What happened to him in the pulpit--The Pope gives him Cardinal Hugolin, as protector of the Order--He preaches in the Valley of Rieti--Delivers the country from two plagues, and makes some conversions there--The houses he builds there--He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, for the year 1219--What he did during the year 1218--Efficacy of his prayers--He wishes to pull down a new house which he found at S. Mary of the Angels BOOK III