Minims

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 487 words | Copyright

Minims (Ordo Fratrum Minimorum). The Order of friars founded by St Francis of Paola; the traditional date of the foundation is 1435. The main characteristic of their rule was a fourth vow of perpetual abstinence from eggs, cheese, butter, and milk, as well as meat and fish; the penitential aspects of the rule were somewhat relaxed in 1973. The Order reached its zenith in the 16th-17th cents., suffered severely in the late 18th and 19th cents., but experienced a revival in the 20th.

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