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Earlier Rule (Regula non bullata, 1221)

Francis of Assisi

Twenty-four chapters combining norms and long exhortations: manual work, the ban on touching money, care of lepers, mission 'among the Saracens and other non-believers', and a lengthy closing prayer of thanksgiving. It reflects the itinerant fraternity of the early years before its transformation into an order.

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· 25 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1Prologus1′
  2. 2Caput I Quod fratres debent vivere sine proprio et in castitate et obedientia.1′
  3. 3Caput II De receptione et vestimentis fratrum.1′
  4. 4Caput III De divino officio et ieiunio.1′
  5. 5Caput IV De ministris et aliis fratribus qualiter ordinentur.1′
  6. 6Caput V De correctione fratrum in offensione.2′
  7. 7Caput VI De recursu fratrum ad ministros et quod aliquis frater non vocetur prior.1′
  8. 8Caput VII De modo serviendi et laborandi.1′
  9. 9Caput VIII Quod fratres non recipiant pecuniam.1′
  10. 10Caput IX De petenda eleemosyna.2′
  11. 11Caput X De infirmis fratribus.1′
  12. 12Caput XI Quod fratres non blasphement nec detrahant, sed diligant se ad invicem.1′
  13. 13Caput XII De malo visu et frequentia mulierum.1′
  14. 14Caput XIII De vitanda fornicatione.1′
  15. 15Caput XIV Quomodo fratres debeant ire per mundum.1′
  16. 16Caput XV Quod fratres non equitent.1′
  17. 17Caput XVI De euntibus inter saracenos et alios infideles.2′
  18. 18Caput XVII De praedicatoribus.2′
  19. 19Caput XVIII Qualiter ministri conveniant ad invicem.1′
  20. 20Caput XIX Quod fratres vivant catholice.1′
  21. 21Caput XX De poenitentia et receptione corporis et sanguinis Domini nostri Jesu Christi.1′
  22. 22Caput XXI De laude et exhortatione, quam possunt omnes fratres facere.1′
  23. 23Caput XXII De admonitione fratrum.5′
  24. 24Caput XXIII Oratio et gratiarum actio.3′
  25. 25Caput XXIV Conclusio.1′
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