The next morning when she told the old Franciscan of the effect of his words, he was much astonished.

The Dominican friar in his black habit, and the Franciscan in his gray, became the ablest and most effective preachers of the thirteenth century.

At Louvain was John Colgan, a Franciscan like Wadding, a man who did much for Irish ecclesiastical history.

Beside four pontiffs, Julius, Leo, Clement, and Paul, the Grand Turk, father of the present Sultan, sent certain Franciscans with letters begging him to come and reside at his court.