Every house, if it be a monastery
of men, shall have a Superior of this fraternity, who shall be called the Local
Minister; but if it be women the Superioress shall be called the Mother. And
they shall be elected by their Convents or instituted by their Provincial
Superiors or General Visitor; so, however, that non be perpetual, but for a
certain time. Which Ministers and Mothers shall obey, in all things pertaining
to this present Rule, the Provincial Ministers of the Order of Minors of
St. Francis, and the Visitors deputed by the same Ministers, as long as
they shall be in the said offices. But as regards other offices within the
house they shall keep their own statutes.
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