ABSTRACT
Now, the blessed man Odoric 1 , after he had come back from foreign parts to his own province, to wit, the March of Treviso, became desirous of visiting the Supreme Pontiff, in order to obtain leave from him to take away with him again a body of fifty friars, no matter from what province, provided they had the will to go. So he departed from Friuli, the district of his birth. But when he got to Pisa he was seized with a sore illness which forced him to return to his own province. And so it was that in Udine, a city of Friuli, in the year of the Lord’s Incarnation M.CCC.XXXI, and the day before the Ides of January, he passed triumphantly from this world to the glories of the blessed. And his virtues and miraculous powers have been there most brilliantly displayed. For through his means the blind, the 276lame, the dumb, the deaf, are, by the Lord’s permission, made perfectly whole. Glory to God, Amen 1 frater, cum anno Domini MCCCXXX de partibus infidelium ad suam provinciam remeasset, scilicet Marchiam Tervisinam, Provinciam Summi Pontificis, vedelicet domini Ioannis Vigesimi secundi, adire disposuit, ut ab eo licentiam peteret, quòd quinquaginta Fratres de quibusdam provinciis collecti, qui voluntarii essent ad eundum, secum duceret ad seminandam fidem in partibus transmarinis, Cum autem recederet de Foro Iulii unde natus erat, et venisset Pisas b , gravi infirmitate correptus est. Eapropter ad locum suum redire compulsus est. Et veniens in Utinum, quæ est civitas de Foro Iuli c , Anno Dominicae Incarnacionis mcccxxxi pridie Idus Ianuarii, de huius mundi naufragio transiit ad gloriam Beatorum. Sed in terris, d virtutibus et multis miraculis modo coruscat. Nam ad tumulum eius cœci, claudi, surdi et muti, et alii diversis morbis praegravati, per merita ipsius accipiunt graciam sanitatis e , a Domino Iesu Christo. Hoc testificatus f est litteris suis in Curia Papae Patriarcha Aquilejensis, in cuius dioecesi hæc fiunt. Et protestatur Styria et Karintia et multi de Italia, et regiones plurimae circumquaque.”!
