Regula minorum fratrum
Honorius
Bishop, Servant of the servants of God,

to our beloved sons, Friar Francis
and the other friars of the Order of the Friars Minor,
greetings and apostolic Benediction:

The Apostolic See is accustomed to grant the pious wishes and the upright desires of those petitioning to share in her benevolent favor. Wherefore, beloved sons in the Lord, having yielded to your pious entreaties, We confirm by Our apostolic authority the Rule of your Order, approved by Our precedessor, Pope Innocent, of good memory, quoted herein, and We thoroughly fortify with the partronage of this present writing that, which is as follows: