29/29 Orlando di Chiusi also received the habit from the hands of Francis. Vide _Instrumentum_, etc., below, p.400.The Franciscan fraternity, under the influence of the other third orders, rapidly lost its specific character. As to this title, Third Order, it surely had originally a hierarchical sense, upon which little by little a chronological sense has been superposed. All these questions become singularly clearer when they are compared with what is known of the Humiliati. |