Others, under the name of bizzoche and mantellat e, wore the habit and observed the rule, e.g. “M. Phicola nostra Pinzochera” at Florence in 1308. Others again became recluses in the anchorages attached to Carmelite churches, and made profession under the form: “Ego frater N. a ...
The saint's humility could not prevent a great many of his brethren beholding with their own eyes the existence of these wonderful wounds during his lifetime as well as after his death. The fact is attested by a number of contemporary historians, and the feast of the Stigmata of St. Franc...