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Life of St. Francis of Assisi

CHAPTER IX
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Occidentalis_, cap.28._De religione et regula Humiliatorum_ (Douai, 1597, pp.

334-337).

The time came when from these two Orders issued a third, composed solely of priests.

These _Humiliati_ are too little known, though they have had a historian whose book is one of the noble works of the eighteenth century: Tiraboschi, _Vetera Humiliatorum monumenta_ (Milan, 3 vols., 4to, 1766-1768).

Toward 1200 they had monopolized _l'arte della lana_ in all upper Italy as far as to Florence; it is evident, therefore, that Francis's father must have had relations with them.
[20] The bull approving the Rule of St.Damian is of August 9, 1253.


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