Rule and Testament of Saint Francis

Translated from: Laurenti C. Card. (1927). Règle et Testament du séraphique Père Saint François avec les Constitutions des Frères Mineurs Capucins. Librairie Saint-Farançois d’Assise, 4, rue Cassette. Imprimatur J. Cawet, vic. gen. Download

Latin version: Laurenti C. Card. (1931). Regula et Testamentum Seraphici Patris S. Francisci et Constitutiones Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (editio altea). Romae, Typis polyglottis Vaticanis. Download

• Prologue
• Chapter 1
  In the name of the Lord, begins the life of the Friars Minor.
• Chapter 2
  Of those who wish to embrace this life, and how they are to be received.
• Chapter 3
  On the Divine Office, fasting, and how the Brothers should go throughout the world.
• Chapter 4
  Let the Brothers receive neither currency nor money.
• Chapter 5
  On the manner of working.
• Chapter 6
  That the Brothers should appropriate nothing; that they should ask for alms; and that the Brothers who are sick.
• Chapter 7
  On the penance to be imposed on Brothers who have fallen into sin.
• Chapter 8
  On the election of the Minister General of this Fraternity and of the Pentecost Chapter.
• Chapter 9
  On Preachers.
• Chapter 10
  On the Admonition and Correction of the Brothers.
• Chapter 11
  That the Brothers should not enter convents of nuns.
• Chapter 12
  Of those who go among the Saracens and other unbelievers.
• End of the Rule of the Friars Minor
  Then the confirmation of the said Rule.