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| | Papal Bull "Cum Nulla" 1452 |
 | | The prior of the house in Florence, Bartolomew Masi, obtained the papal bull “Cum nulla” from Pope Nicholas V, dated October 7, 1452. |
 | | This gave authority to the Prior General and to the Provincials of the Order to receive, admit, and protect the female virgin religious, widows, “beguines,” mantellatae, who, individually or in groups (convents) were living, or in the future would ask to live, under the habit and protection of the Carmelite Order. |
 | | This bull is considered as the institution of the Carmelite cloistered nuns, of the Third Order and of the Carmelite Confraternities. |
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