Franciscans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...foundation, the order had a very strong wing of zealots the Spirituals, who advocated absolute poverty, thus deploring the convents...Bonaventure tried to reconcile the factions of the order, but the Spirituals grew stronger and saw one of their heroes made pope as St...