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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Title: 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.
Author: Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.
Publication: At S. Omers :: By Iohn Heigham,; 1618.
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Subject terms: Francis, -- of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.; Franciscans -- Biography.; Christian saints -- Italy -- Assisi -- Biography.
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Of the manner of saying the diuine office, of fasting, and of the time of communicating.

THE III. CHAPTER.

THe Religious that can read, shall say the diuine office accor∣ding to the vse of the Frere Minors, when they may haue a Breuiary, and shall read it without singing, and they who so∣metimes vpon some light impediment, cannot read the office, shall say their Pater nosters as the others sisters that cannot read, who shall say for their Mattins twenty four times the Pater noster, for Laudes fi∣ue, For the Prime, Third, Sixt, and Ninth houre for each seauen ti∣mes the Pater Noster, for the Euensong twelue times, and for Com∣pline seauen times. They also shall say for the euensong of the dead, sea∣uen times the Pater Noster with Requiem aeternam, and for the Matins twelue times. And the sisters that can read shall say the office of the dead. When any Religious of the Monastery shall dye, the sisters shall say fifty Pater Nosters for her soule.

The sisters, shall fast att all times: but on the Natiuity of our Lord IESVS CHRIST, fall it on whatsoeuer day, they may eat two meales. The yong, the weake, and the seruantes that liue out of the Monastery, may be dispensed withall for their fastes by mercy and charity, according to the discretion of the Abbesse. But in time of manifest necessity, the sisters shall not be obliged to corporall fast.

Lett them with permission of the Abbesse, confesse twelue times in the yeare: lett them be exceeding wary not to entermingle any wor∣des in their confession, but what is necessary thervnto and for the salua∣tion of their soules.

Lett the sisters communicate seauen times a yeare, to witt att the Na∣tiuity of our Lord, Maundie thursday, att Easter, Ascension day, Whit∣sonday, on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and Alsaintes: since the canonization of sainct Francis, for the eight communion, is added the day of his feast. It shalbe permissable for the chappelain to communica∣te the sick within the Monastery.