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Francisoan communities Were alloWed to receive
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Was Who Went into schism miser than submitto a Papia decision inita memed in his a relaxation of the Rule. But there is this to besaid. His conception of poVer S no more in accordanoe Min the miud of St. Francis inan
conception of the Franciscan life Was notspiritual but legalistic. He Was nei ther Franciscan in thought nor in p-er . So sar, then, I have indemo in to in What fore of man the Franciscan Friar Was, and in What his proper Ese consisted. At attae When so muta is Written about St. Francis
and his Order, it is Wial to have an exstot knowledge of the Friam' life and mission as it is inlaten in inela history, and as it is maintaininin inela tradition.
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92 ΤΗΕ FRIAM Is one mirat Ventum to suggest in a Wordine test os frue Franciscati devolvmen that Which might easib be recognised as in generaldistinguishing the true stom the salse, Whether in regard to learning or to externat conduct-We s uld say that it is simplici . Whereverthere is a Want of simplici , inere the true Francisoan spirit is Wanting; on the other Mnd, the simple lus is so far the Francisoan Ese. d inasmuch as the Franciscan is a living protest against the Want of simplicity amongstine Christian people, he is sauhlal to the idealand mission of his Bunder. VII. But 'by thela Duus ye inali linoW them. The Francisoan Friar had harMy arrived umnthe scens of hist y besse his innuendo beganto bs sest in almost every depariment of lila. In the universiu and the muri, in the casus and the mor man's -elling, in the pulpit ind
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said: The mendicant brothera influenoed mery stratum os societ' They threst the secular
clero stom the consessional and the pulpit: they fissed the chalas of the universi ty; th
Were the greatest temhers of scholastio' learning. . . . They Sat in the college os cardinias, andRS POPes mounted the sacrin chain Thela voices Whisperin to the consciences of the citigen inins inmore chamber of his dwelling, and at themost sumptuous muris into the ears of thering, Whose consessors and counsessors theyWere. Thela accents refounded in the halis of ths Lateran, and in the stomy paritaments of the republics. WV sin and heata eVerything. y Thela influence Was as elevating as it
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their sermons and the learned to their lectures.
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turies, and wen as late as the seventeenta, the Friars Were frequently chosen to bring abo pestes bet en contending factions, or Were Seutas ambassadors of the Hesy See to avert Warbet een Christian nations. They Were bycommon consent the accepted Macemahers. In another Way, t , they Were able to exertineis influenoe in politios. Very generalty theyacted as secretaries to princes and nobies, and
thus had a voice in political assalas. of the en interest Which the Friars inoli in thewelsare of the reata an instance is Dund in theletters of Adam de Μarisco, the confidant of Simon de Monis i and Bishop Gmsseteste.
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remon giVen sor inela appota ent Was stared thus : Cantabit vacuus coram latrone Viator.'
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the assalas of a poor rector; theu he corresponds ith orious ladies concerning the state of their mula; and again, he intercedes With thesuperiors of his Order on binals of a mna VFriar. These are a se of the subjecta in Whiohhe is interestin, but in reVeal to us Some Ofthe fources of the Friar's iso linge of men.