The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.
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The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.
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Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.
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At S. Omers :: By Iohn Heigham,
1618.
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Francis, -- of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
Franciscans -- Biography.
Christian saints -- Italy -- Assisi -- Biography.
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"The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01200.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2025.
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Of the Conuersion of the glorious S. Clare and of the beginning of her Order.
THE LV. CHAPTER.
THe afforesaid yeare, 1212. the glorious S. being by the diuine* 1.1 Maiesty recalled not without cōsideration of great consequēce, from the voyage of Siria, he gaue a beginning to the Order of the Damianes, the roote and originall wherof, was the glorious mother S. Clare, descended of a noble familie of Assisiū, who albeit by her pa∣rentes educated and nourished deliciously, with intent to be afterward according to the manner of the world honourably marryed: the holy Ghost did notwistanding worck the contrary, and intended to enrich her
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with celestiall treasures. For which occasion euen from her infancy, he had a very particuler care of her, with purpose to espouse her vnto our Lord IESVS CHRIST. And when he thought the time conuenient, he permitted that, hearing admirable matters deliuered of the holy Father S. Francis, she with a manly courage resolued to follow him in the strict way of euangelical perfection. Hauing then found opportunity, she presented her selfe alone to the said S. and hauing discouered her hart vnto him, he instantly perceaued the inspiration which she had from God, and in very few howers giuing the farwell to her kinred, her sub∣stance, together with all the world, she procured him to cutt of her haire, and to cloth her with his owne habitt, before the aulter of our Lady of Angels. For more security, the holy Father S. Francis commit∣ted her to the monastery of S. Paul, where were Religious of the Order of S. Benett, whence by reason of extreme persecutions and violent pro∣ceedinges off her kinred hauing att length taken her out, he placed her in the Church of S. Damian, where was the first monastery of S. Clare, and by reason of their nomber that there encreased, they were called Damianes, as shall seuerally and verie particu∣lerlie appeare in the eight booke, in the life of B. and glorious Saincte Clare.