The lack of chronological setting in both the standard Lives of B. Giles makes it difficult to be sure when it was that he settled down in the Convent of Monteripido, not far from Perugia. A good many references to his life in that Convent are found, especially in the Long Life, and it seems likely that with increasing age and failing powers Giles remained during the last years of his life, possibly even from about 1234, very much in seclusion at Monteripido. He must have been a much revered figure in the Order, for he was one of the few remaining links with the old days, the days when the personality of St. Francis had kept the Order together as one family before the lamentable strife between the Spiritual friars and the Community began. He had seen the leading personalities in the Order pass away, Peter Cathanius in 1221, St. Francis himself in 1226, Bernard of Quintavalle about 1242, St. Clare in 1253: most of the other early followers also had gone to their rest: and Giles was left–one of the last of the apostolic band–living, one may suppose, very much in the memory of past days, but with an unwavering hold upon the ideals which had taken possession of his life in 1209.