poverelli

Updated: May 23, 2025

These early friars, true poverelli di Dio, would accept no endowment of house or money, and supporting themselves by their hands, carried their splendid devotion among the poor, the outcast, and the lepers of Paris. In 1230 the Cordeliers, as they were called, accepted the loan of a house near the walls in the south-western part of the city; St.

Thomas Okey - The Story of Paris