power. He scourges bishops, doctors, priests, and especially monks, who suck the blood of the poor by begging. He declares that human laws, fasts, feasts, processions, etc., had driven into the background the commands of God, that the sale of indulgences, the worship of relics and miracles drew people from true piety, and finally declares it his aim to help abolish all these accretions and to lead the Church back to its original simplicity. “I believe,” he prophesies, “that all these above-named