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the sympathetic accounts "f ''""temporary annal^ts, rnnrnd Droved too severe and harsh. His assistants, Conrad provea v ^ j j brother, and John, a

L~ we e' ignorant fanatic^s unqualified for such layman, were « too easily the declarations of

Zsons accused of heresy; on the strength of their

not now be ascertained. In Western Germany a genera panfc followed the appearance of this -severe judge of heretics, who did not fear to simimon before his tri- bSia powerful nobles, suspected of heresy among such the Count of Sayn. The count appealed to the Irchbishop of Mainz iho convened a synod of his suf- Wnr,s ("5 Julv 1233), at which King Henry also as- s stid Both Sie bishops and the influential nobles were generally M-disposed towards Conrad, who « as present at the%ynod, and it was found impos-We to Drove the charge of heresy agamst the Count ot bayn. Thereupon Comad undertook, in the exercise of h s papal commission, to preacli a cxusade against heretic nobles Shortly afterwards (30 July, 1233) botli ne and his companion, the Franciscan Gerhard Lutzel- koft were murdered while returning to Marburg. He was CLd in Marburg near St. ElizabH^h Despite the unfavourable action of the synod of Mainz, Ore orv IX extended his protection to the memory of the deceased inquisitor and insisted that severe punish- ment be meted out lf2trBe^^f"aie;aerM. Elisabeth und

?8n); k'Lt.h, K^radvon Marbuwundjhe 'n^"^^;^^ Dc«(scHand (Prague 1SS2), Michael, ^-e^cn ,^.^^^^,,_

die Quell, ihrer Gesch. m Histor. JaliTb. UMU'). -'^-^

sqq, 729sqq. j p Kjrsch.

John Olivi to Blessed Conrad m which he legitimacy of Boniface VIII's election is defended, has been edited by Ignatius Jeiler (Histonsches Jahrbuch, 111. 649) During a course of missions he was giving at Bastia, he passed away at the age of about sixty-five years and was buried in that place, rfy-si^ Y^ars later his remains were carried off by the Perug.ans and buried at San Francesco. They now repose be- side those of Blessed Giles in the choir of the cathe- dral at Perugia. Pius VII in 181 7 ratified he coitus of Blessed t°onrad. His feast is kept m the Order of Friars Minor on 19 December.

See the earlv Vita Ft. Conradi in Analecta Franctscana (Quaracchi 1897). Ill, 422-130; an epitome of the same is

%Z 'b tJl^rfdi fnT;s^ T^^ S-]: f |7^;

TrhulatiJies. ed. Ehrle 'nArchio jur Literatur und Aw'.m

/ n/ J t ti,^ Thytif Cirrlpr-i nf Si Francis (Taunton, Ihbi ). and BUssed_ oUheThr^^OrM .1. ^^^^^.^ ^^^^^^^^_ ^^^.^_

^"^^"^^■'- Stephen M. Donovan.

Conrad of Offida, Blessed, Friar Minor, b. at Of-

fida a little town in th<^ M^^* °f ^ncx.^'li '^^ ^f,t ' A „i R5,«tii in Ilmbria, 12 December, 130b. When bare y fourteen y"ars;id he entered the Order of Fria s Cor at Ascoli, and was making rapid progress L tie study of sacred sciences, when an mternal vo|ce called him to humbler offices of the religious life. He therefore abandoned his stucUes with the consent of Ws superiors, and for many years was employed as cook and questor. His superiors subsequently had him ordained and sent him forth to preach. His im- m^sioncd sermons touched the hearts of the most hardened Conrad modelled his life after that of his seraphic father, St. Francis. He was especu. y zeal- ous for the observance of poverty. During h s long religious life he always wore the same habit and alwtvs went barefoot, without sandals. Ihe early kS declares that Conrad's guardian angel was tlie same that had formerly fulfilled this office for St Francis, and that Blessed Giles came back t^ eartli to teach him the mysteries of contemplation \\hen Brother Leo, the compamon and confessor ot ht. Francis was dying, he sent for Conrad and made him he depo^tary^ot'liis writings Conrad was allied with Angelo (nareno and intimately umt«d with John of La Penna, John of Parma, Peter « J" ^?, Ohv,',. Peter of Monticello, and others of the Sp rituals In 1294 he obtained permission from Celestine V to separate fnnn the main body of the order and found Uie Celestines by whom the Rule of St. Francis was

Conrad of Piacenza, Saint hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis, date of birth uncertain ; d at^Noto \n Sicily, 19 February, 1351. He belonged to one of the nob est families of Piacenza, and ha^-ing mar- red when he was quite young, led a virtuous and God-fearing life. On one occasion, when he was en- gaged in hil usual pastime of hunting, he ordered his Itt^ndants to fire some brushwood m which game had taken refuge. The prevailing wind caused the flames tospread rSpidly, andthe surround ng fields and forest were soon in a state of conflagration. A mendicant, , who happened to be found near the place where the i fi e ha!l ori^hiated, was accused of being the author. He was imprisoned, tried, and condemned to death. As the pooJ man was being led to execution, Conrad ftricken with remorse, made open confession of his gt It^ and in order to repair the damage o which he had been the cause, was obliged to sell all his posses- dons Thus reduced to poverty Conrad retired o a lonely hermitage some distance froin Piacenza, .vlile his wdfe entered the Order of Poor Clares. La or he went to Rome, and thence to Sicily, ^diere for thirty years he lived a most austere and pemtential life and worked numerous miracles. He is espec.ally.in yok d Tor the cure of hernia. In 1515 Leo X permitted the town of Noto to celebrate his feast, winch PermisM m was"ater extended by Urban VIII to tlie whole Or, . of St. Francis. Though bearing the title os.". Conrad was never formally canonized His n.i^t is

Wadding, Annates imni." uin, . j., Sii???/^ una ■

-®^- Stephen M. Donovan

Conrad of Saxony (also called Conradus Sa.ko

CoNllAlf OF BRUNSwfcK, Or CoNUADUS HoLVINGER)

Friar Minor and ascetlc.al writer, d_ate and pUice o birth uncertain; d. at Bologna in 12/9 Holymgeri perhaps his family name. The error has been mad Ty some of confounding Conrad of Saxony with a« other person of the same name who suffered for tM Faith in 1284, whereas it is certain that they were WO dkt^inct individuals, though l-longmg to the same nrovince of the order in Germany. Conrad became prov ncial minister of the province of ?axony in 1245, and for sixteen years ruled the province with mud

the uelestmes uy vvuum im^ ^..—v ".-_-■• .. „ '„„i ,,,,,1 „,.,,flpnce While on his way to tlio general

observe.1 in allils purity. When this congregation '; '^^l, ;" ' ,' " If^g "-i^e was attacked with a griewus was suppressed by Boniface V II, Conrad unme- ^'^fj^- .ied 'at Bologna in the same year. The X}t:'^tZ:^^^'^^^^'^-^^ S^":!f't^rad of iaxony include several se.