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Noun: Franciscanism
  1. The beliefs or practices of the originally mendicant Roman Catholic religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209 and dedicated to the virtues of humility and poverty.
    "His Franciscanism was that of respectable, well-educated priests worshipping God in perfect liturgical harmony, embracing a life of penitence in poverty."

Type of: theological doctrine

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