COLLOQUY III
That the Friars Minor should not Erect superfluous Buildings
The same Vicar of the holy Father, Brother Peter of Catania, caused a small building to be erected for the greater convenience of performing the Divine Office, and to procure for the Friars who came as guests every day in great numbers more quiet and tranquillity. At this the blessed Father was a little displeased, and said : ‘ Brother, this place is the model and example for the whole Order. I would rather that the Religious of this house should suffer some troubles and inconveniences for the love of God, so that others who come here should see a good example of poverty, than that they should have more buildings, lest the guests when they return to their own Monasteries should begin to build spacious houses, saying : ” At St. Mary of the Angels, which is the first and principal house of the Order, they have many buildings ; there cannot therefore be any fault against holy Poverty if we construct the same.”