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 gQQ THE SLAVIC CATHAKI. affairs commenced to look more favorable. Hungary began to emerge from the disorders and disasters which had so long crippled it and King Charles Eobert was inclined to Msten to exhortations as to his duty towards the Bosnian heretics. In 1823, therefore, John XXII. made another attempt, sending Fra Fabiano thither and ordering Charles Robert and Stephen to give him effective support. The latter was obdurate, though the former seems to have manifested some zeal, if one may believe the praises bestowed on him in 1327 by John. Fabiano was indefatigable, but his duty proved no easy one. At the very outset he met with unexpected resistance in a city so near at hand as Trieste. When he endeav- ored there to enforce the decrees against heresy, and to arouse the people to a sense of their duty, the bells were rung, a mob was as- sembled, he was dragged from the pulpit and beaten, the leaders in the disturbance being two canons of the Cathedral, Michele da Padua, and Raimondo da Cremona, who were promptly ordered by the pope to be prosecuted as suspects of heresy. Hardly had he settled this question when he was involved in a controversy with the rival Dominicans, whom he found to be poachmg on his preserves A zealous Dominican, Matteo of Agram, by suppress- ing the fact that Slavonia was Franciscan territory, had obtained from John letters authorizing the Dominican provincial to appoint inquisitors, commissioned to preach a crusade with Holy Land m- dul<^ences, and these inquisitors had been urgently recommended bv the pope to the King of Hungary and other potentates. It was impossible that the Orders could co-operate in harmony, and Fa. biano made haste to represent to John the trap into which he had been led The pope was now at the height of his controversy with the greater part of the Franciscans over the question of pov- erty and it was impolitic to give Just grounds of complamt to those who remained faithful ; he therefore promptly recalled the letters o-iven to the Dominicans, and scolded them roundly for de- ceivingliim Even yet it seemed impossible for Fabiano to pene- trate beyond the borders of his district, or to work without im- pediment, for in 1329 he was occupied with prosecuting for heresy the Abbot of SS. Cosmas and Damiani of Zara and one of his monks, wh<.n John, the Archbishop of Zara, intervened forcibly and stopped the proceedings. The difficulties thrown in Fabiano s way must have been great, for he felt compelled to visit Avignon