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The Beginning of the Capuchin Order |
 Beginning of the Capuchins Pope Clement VII, from his
residence in Viterbo, permitted Brothers Louis and Raphael Tenaglia
from Fossombrone, with the Bull, Religionis Zelus, to live the
hermetical life according to the Rule of St. Francis of Assisi.
This
allowed them to wear the Capuchin habit, to receive both clerical and
non-clerical brothers, to wear the beard, and to withdraw themselves to
a hermitage with the consent of the owner of the property and to live
there. They could also beg, and to enjoy the privileges granted to the
Order of Friars Minor and to the Camaldolese of St. Romuald of Ravenna.
It
was thus that, on July 3, 1528, that the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor
began their way of life. The Bull was first read and published in the
Piazza of Camerino by Caterina Cybo, who was the duchess of Camerino
and to whom,Brothers Louis and Raphael,had close ties. This date has
always remained part of our history as a feast and a memory, because on
the renovation of our Religious Profession, as St. Francis said “to do
by the strength of Your Love, that which we know You desire and to want
always what is pleasing to You, and to follow the footsteps of your
Beloved Son”.
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