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Todays Blessed Among Us profiles Luechesio and Buonadonna - the first Franciscan Tertiaries. (d. 1260) A well-to-do married couple who transform their way of life in their 30s (after the death of their children.) They give up their business, and distribute their wealth, keeping only a small plot of land to farm. They begin serving the poor, sharing their food with those less fortunate. They meet St. Francis of Assisi who came to preach in their town, and begged for some way to follow his path without separating and entering religious life. And thus: the Third Order in the Franciscan family for laypeople living in the world was born!
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:16:26 +0000

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