Fraticelli

In this article the name Fraticelli is confined to heretical sects which separated from the Franciscan Order on account of the disputes concerning poverty.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

And these the populace now called Fraticelli, not unlike the French Beghards, who drew their inspiration from Pierre Olieu.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

He has left us in a canzone, mediocre enough as poetry, a satire on "Holy Poverty" and the excesses of the "Fraticelli", the radicals among the Franciscans of that time.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

So Italy was invaded by these Fraticelli or Friars of the Poor Life, whom many considered dangerous.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

So after that, many Fraticelli, who knew nothing of empire or of Perugia, were burned to death.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

He realized, however, that to destroy the weed of the Fraticelli, who threatened the very foundation of the church's authority, he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

Celestine V was succeeded by Boniface VIII, and this Pope promptly demonstrated scant indulgence for Spirituals and Fraticelli in general: in the last years of the dying century he signed a bull, Firma cautela, in which with one stroke he condemned bizochi, vagabond mendicants who roamed about at the far edge of the Franciscan order, and the Spirituals themselves, who had left the life of the order and retired to a hermitage.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

The defeat of the Franciscan Spirituals by about 1325 ended the open association of Joachism with an organized sect; but it continued among its dissident remnants — the Fraticelli — as well as promi - nent individuals such as John of Rupescissa, imprisoned in the papal court at Avignon (ca. 1350) for his prophetic writings.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GORDON LEFF 1968

Spirituals nor the later groups of the Fraticelli were of comparable significance with the Waldensians.

HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

They were excommunicated by John XXII by the Bull "Sancta Romana et universalis Ecclesia", dated from Avignon, 30 Dec., 1317; they continued to exist, however, as the Fraticelli.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913