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The Franciscan Experience - http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/fra/FRAmain.html
A course on the origins of the Franciscan order. |
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Franciscan Order - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06217a.htm
An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic church. From the Catholic Encyclopedia. |
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Charter of Abbey of Cluny - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chart-cluny.html
From the Medieval Sourcebook. |
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Cluny, Congregation of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04073a.htm
The earliest reform, which became practically a distinct order, within the Benedictine family. |
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Spirituals - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14230a.htm
A general term denoting several groups of Friars Minor, existing in the second half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, who, in opposition to the main body of the order, pretended to observe the Rule of St. Francis in its primitive severity. |