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Approval of the Franciscan rule - Coggle Diagram
Approval of the
Franciscan rule
1209
Francis
with a
few companions,
went to Rome
asked for
Francis' life proposal
to be approved
based on
a few verses
of the Gospel
Pope
Innocent III
gave
Francis
a prudent
answer
nothing
in writing
considered
Francis' proposed
rule too difficult
to put into practice
1221
Francis wrote
a
second rule
even more
complex
required
following
the Gospel
to the letter
was not
approved by
the Pope
Francis's
companions
it was judged
impossible to follow
1223
Francis'
third rule
was
approved
by
the friars
the Pope
Honorius III
the result of
many
compromises
only partly
reflected
Francis'
original will
A few decades
after Francis' death,
Pope Nicholas IV
(1288-1292)
commissioned a fresco
dedicated to the life of Francis
for the basilica in Assisi
Pope was
a Franciscan
he decided
to tell the story of
the approval of the rule
in a different way
Representing in
the mother church of
the Franciscan order
(basilica of Assisi)
the uncertainties of
Innocent III in front of
the first version of the rule
was not permissible
the episode
was "
rewritten
"
The cartouche
between the hands
of Innocent III and Francis
reports the words with which
the third rule, approved by
Honorius III thirteen years later, begins
The fresco
depicting
the approval of the rule
of the Franciscan order
is a
forgery
.
would have attested that
the Franciscans had a rule
immediately approved
by the Pope
wanted by the Pope
for political expediency