The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour.

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The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour.

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Third Order Regular of St. Francis.

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At Douay :: By the Widdow of Marke VVyon,

M. DC. XLIV [1644]

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Monasticism and religious orders for women

Third Order Regular of St. Francis -- Rules.

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"The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89642.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• TO THE RIGHT R. FATHER Br. IOHN GENNINGS FIRST PROVINCIALL AND RESTORER Of the English Prouince of Friar Minours: and now actuall Prouinciall of the same.
• To the Reader.
• APPROBATIONES
  • approbation
  • approbation
  • approbation
  • approbation
• THE INDEX OF THE CHAPTERS.
• THE PREFACE.
• THE FIRST PART Wherein are made seueral dis∣courses and questions touching the Rule and professours thereof, occa∣sion'd by the Preface which Pope Leo prefixt before this third Rule of S. Francis.
  • THE FIRST CHAPTER. What a Rule is.
  • THE SECOND CHAPTER. Whence commeth it that there are so many Rules, since all be to ob∣serue the Euangelicall Counsels.
  • THE THIRD CHAPTER. Of the originall or beginning of Re∣ligious orders.
  • THE FOVRTH CHAPTER. The Rules and Religious orders that haue sprung vp since the A∣postles times.
  • THE FIFT CHAPTER. How that in all ages ince Christ there haue bene religious woemen, aswell as men.
  • THE SIXT CHAPTER. What the third order, and their Rule is.
  • THE SEAVENTH CHAPTER. who was the Author of this Rule.
  • THE EIGHTH CHAPTER. Of the seuerall branches in this Order.
  • THE NINTH CHAPTER. Of the great progresse that the pro∣fessors of this Rule haue made in the way of perfe∣ction.
  • THE TENTH CHAPTER. Whether the third Order be a Reli∣gious state.
  • THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER. What Priuiledges this Third order enioyeth.
  • THE TWELFTH CHAPTER. To whom the religious of this order are subiect.
  • THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER. What were the motiues that drew Popes to grant these priui∣ledges and graces to this third order.
  • THE FOVRTEENTH CHAPTER. Of the sanctitie of this order.
  • THE FISTEENTH CHAPTER. The life of Blessed S. Elizabeth Queene of Hungary compendious¦ly extracted out of the An∣nalls of our Order.
    • What this sainct did vntill such time as she was married. §. 1.
    • What she did in the time of her Marriage. § 2.
    • What she did after her husbands death. §. 3.
    • How the holy woman tooke vpon her a religious course of life. §. 4.
    • The translation of S. Eli∣zabeth §. 5.
  • THE SIXTEENTH CHAPTER. Of the life and death of Blessed S. Lewis king of France.
  • THE SEAVENTEENTH CHAPTER. The life of S. Iuo Patrone of the lawyers.
  • THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER. Contayning the liues of some bea∣tified saints of this order.
  • THE NINTEENTH CHAPTER. Containing a briefe catalogue of the principall holy persons that haue beene in this order, since it came to be a perfect religious state.
  • THE TWENTITH CHAPTER. How Pope Leo the 10. accomodated the Rule of this third order to religious per∣sons.
  • THE 21. CHAPTER. How this Rule is a Rule of pen∣nance.
  • THE 22. CHAPTER. Containing a declaration of the state of Innocency.
  • THE 23. CHAPTER. Declaring mans fall from the state of Innocency.
  • THE 24. CHAPTER. Declaring how we may reduce our selues to the state of Innocency.
  • THE 25. CHAPTER. Whether the religious of this third order be in the state of perfection.
  • THE 26. CHAPTER. Whether the third order be actiue or contemplatiue.
  • THE 27. CHAPTER. Whether it be lawfull for any one to diuert another from com∣ming to reli∣gion.
  • THE 28. CHAPTER. Briefly discoursing of vocations, an how one may assure himselfe of them.
  • Conclusion.
• appendix
  • MODVS VESTIENDI SO∣rores Religiosas Ter∣tiae Regulae Ordinis D. Francisci.
    • Benedictio habitus.
    • Benedictio Cinguli.
  • MODVS ADMIT∣tendi Sorores Tertij Ordinis S. Francisci ad Professionem.
    • Benedictio veli.
    • Benedictio Annuli.
  • approbation for appendix
• BREEFE INSTRV∣ctions for Novices ta∣ken out of S. Dionise the Carthusian.
  • Briefe Rules against Tempta∣tions.
  • Prayers.
    • prayer
    • prayer
    • A prayer for perseuerance.
    • A prayer for Gods Grace.
    • Another.
    • Another.
    • Another for the same.
    • Prayers after Profession.
      • prayer
      • Another.
    • A prayer to our holy Father S. Francis.
  • Instructions for those who are professed.
    • A briefe extraction of some perfe∣ctions of S. Francis, which may serue as a patterne for all his children.
    • Instructions for the conserva∣tion of mutuall charitie.
• ORDO AD VNGENDAM INFIRMAM.