four  rivers  of  Paradise.  St.  Angel,  Carmelite  Mar-
tyr, who  Tva.^  ill  Eomo  in  1216,  while  preaching  at  the
Latoran  Baailica,  suddenly  announced  to  his  audi-
ence, from  the  pulpit,  that  there  were  amongst  them,
two  great  pillars  of  the  church,  viz  :  Dominic  and
Francis ;  and  immediately  after  his  sermon  he  went
to  embrace  them,  and  the  three  retired  to  St.  Fabina,
■where  they  passed  the  day  and  night  together,  in
prayer  and  holy  conversation.*  The  part  which  the
Franciscan,  St.  Peter  of  Alcantara,  bore  in  the  Re-
formation of  the  Carmelites,  imdertaken  by  St.  The-
resa, is  well  known.f  The  Chronologist  of  these  Dis-
calced  Carmelites,  eshorts  his  brethren  to  be  always
mindful  of  what  this  holy  Father  did  for  the  Reforma-
tion, and  to  glory  in  having  had  him  as  a  coadjutor  of
theii'  Olustrious  Mother,  and  to  call  bJTn  witb  full
\oic&~Father.'

St.  Ignatius,  the  founder  of  the  Jesuits,  having  gone
to  Eome,  in  order  to  establish  his  Society,  had  there
for  his  director,  the  Franciscan,  Father  Theodosius
of  Rome,  who  resided  at  St.  Peter  Montario  ;  and  it
was  Theodosius  who  induced  Ignatius,  even  by  com-
manding him,  to  accept  the  office  of  General  of  the
Society,  to  which  he  was  then  elected.^  The  founder
of  the  Jesuits  was  also  encouraged  in  his  undertaking
by  Abbess  Ehzabeth  Rosella,  a  mm  of  St.  Clare  ;  and
it  is  attested  by  several  authors  that  he  was  a  pro-
fessed Tertian  of  St.  Francis,  before  instituting  the
Society  of  Jesus.  §  The  Franciscan  Tasseda  was  also
a  great  friend  of  St.  Ignatius,  and  his  spiritual  guide ;
but  he  did  more  for  the  Society,  for  he  dissuaded
Francis   Borgia    from  becoming    a  Franciscan,    and

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