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1 1 | as many as acknowledge Francis as their author and parent,
2 1 | Minor began under blessed Francis of good memory, and it did
3 1 | manner to the disciples of Francis gathered in general chapter,
4 1 | was going before blessed Francis, Our father and yours, but
5 2 | which Honorius III, while Francis lived, had already done),
6 3 | kind confessor of Christ, Francis, which sprouting the sprout (
7 3 | the Holy Spirit to blessed Francis, and having inspired those
8 4 | Confessor of Christ Saint Francis wrote down; and taught equally
9 6 | sent His blessed servant Francis, and went before him in
10 6 | introduce Christ by means of Francis: " Thou hast investigated
11 6 | merits of the said blessed Francis, the sacrosanct Mother Church,
12 7 | 7. But concerning Francis and his institutes, neither
13 7 | whole Western World, Saint Francis of Assisi, working greater
14 7 | human voice was heard by Francis: Go, watch over My House (
15 7 | he himself seemed to see Francis sustaining the waverying
16 7 | it was to signify, that Francis was not a light-armed guard
17 8 | been accustomed to admire Francis of Assisi and to foster
18 8 | Order, divinely founded by Francis, for Christian society,
19 8 | are the genuine progeny of Francis, has been sanctioned very
20 8 | of the Order of Blessed Francis and observers of his Rule,
21 8 | publishing of the Rule by Bl. Francis even to the present also
22 8 | soldiers under the Rule of Bl. Francis, and do also serve even
23 8 | Friars of the Order of Saint Francis ». 12 Moreover concerning
24 8 | Friars of the Order of Saint Francis, and observers of his Rule,
25 8 | present under the Rule of Bl. Francis himself ». -- Affirming
26 8 | been born from the same Francis and as having been carefully
27 8 | holy manner by all:~I. St. Francis' first Order, whether you
28 8 | true successors of Saint Francis, that is each on behalf
29 8 | whose root and trunk is Francis. On this account the Friars
30 8 | the Basilica of blessed Francis in the city of Assisi, where
31 8 | however many of the sons of Francis glory in that name, they
32 8 | called Tertiaries of St. Francis or Franciscan Tertiaries,
33 9 | But these instructions Bl. Francis, the founder of the Seraphic
34 9 | concerning the ancient sons of Francis: « Oh with how much ardor
35 9 | Joseph, the Chord of Saint Francis, (and) likewise the pious
36 13| Fisherman, on he feast of St. Francis of Assisi, October 7, 1901,
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