Franciscanism

It is well known that the history of the Church from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was largely the history of the rise and growth of Franciscanism in every part of Europe.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

Its impulse came not from the monasteries proper, but from the convents of Dominican friars, and it was for Germany in the fourteenth century something like what Franciscanism had been for Italy in the thirteenth.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Early Franciscanism meant above all the democratizing, the humanizing of

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

It is well known that the history of the Church from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was largely the history of the rise and growth of Franciscanism in every part of Europe.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917