Le regole delle suore questuanti del monastero delle cappuccine di S. Chiara in S. Fiora

• Autores: Mauro Papalini
• Localización: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, ISSN 0004-0665, Vol. 105, Nº. 1-4, 2012, págs. 558-588
• Idioma: italiano
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  • MAURO PAPALINI. – Le regole delle suore questuanti del monastero delle Cappuccine di S. Chiara in S. Fiora (557-588) This contribution examines the legal history of the “external sisters” attached to the monasteries of the Poor Clares and presents their modus vivendi in the case of the Capuchin Sisters at S.

    Chiara in S. Fiora, an early 17th century foundation. Since in the aftermath of the Council of Trent, the Church tried to radically confine female religious to the enclosure, S. Fiore managed to engage some lay women who went out begging on behalf of the sisters, oversaw their external possessions, ran the guesthouse and assumed some house chores without entering the enclosure.

    Assimilated to the secular Franciscan Order, these women nevertheless followed the Clarian Rule in a mitigated way. In 1871, the local bishop gave them a new Rule which made the conversae sisters “real Tertiaries” without being spiritually disconnecting them from their enclosed Second Order sisters. About twenty years later, yet another bishop of Città della Pieve, issued a revised Rule on their behalf, now taking into account Leo XIII’s bull Misericors Dei (1883) which regulated the Tertiaries’ life. Both Rules (1871 and post-1883) are discussed and transcribed at the end of the article.