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| | Order of Friars Minor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The Franciscan minister general, Saint Bonaventure, sought a balance between the Conventuals, who wanted to adapt their poverty to the needs of the time, and the Spirituals, who wanted a strict poverty. |
 | | The quarrel intensified during the 14th century when some of the Spiritual Franciscans, known as the Fraticelli, were condemned (1317-18) by Pope John XXII. |
 | | On October 4, 1897, in the papal bull Felicitate quadam Pope Leo XIII combined the Observants, the Reformed, the Recollects, and the Alcantarines to form the Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.). |
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