By this bull Nicholas IV .-- minister-general of the Brothers Minor before becoming pope--sought to draw into the hands of his Order the direction of all associations of pious laics (Third Order of St.Dominic, the Gaudentes, the Humiliati.
etc.).

He desired by that to give a greater impulse to those fraternities which depended directly on the court of Rome, and augment their power by unifying them.
[21] Vide Bull _Significatum est_ of December 16, 1221.

Cf.
_Supra montem_, chap.

vii.
[22] The Rule of the Third Order of the Humiliati, which dates from 1201, contains a similar clause.

Tiraboschi, vol.ii., p.
132.
[23] In the A.SS., Aprilis, vol.ii.p.