Chapter XXVIII. Of the house at Bologna from which he drove out the sick

58. Once when S. Francis was returning from Verona, and was intending to go through

Bologna, he was told "that a house of the brethren had just been built there". No sooner did he hear the words "a house of the brethren" than he turned aside and passed onward another way without going to Bologna. Furthermore he ordered all the brethren to leave the house with haste, in consequence of which, when the house was quitted, even the sick were not left behind, but turned out with the rest. Nor were they allowed to go back until the Lord Hugo (then Bishop of Ostia and Legate in Lombardy) had made it publicly known that the house belonged to him. He who was then turned out of the house sick bears witness to these things and writes them down.