Cloistered Nuns of the Third Order of Saint Francis
Author: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, ca. 1660-1714
Image Title: Cloistered Nuns of the Third Order of Saint Francis
Description: This etched print features a rendering of Angeline of Marsciano’s experience of a divine vision from God. Prior to this but after the death of her husband, Giovanni da Temi, the Count of Civitella del Tronto, Angeline (1357 – 1435 CE) joined the Fransciscan tertiaries and traveled around the countryside of the kingdom of Naples as part of an apostolic mission. On a certain trip to Assisi, she stopped to rest and to pray at the Basilica of Santa Maria, the cradle of the Franciscan Order. There she experienced a vision, wherein God instructed her to found a cloistered monastery under the Rule of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Foligno. After assuming the primary leadership role in a small community of women Fransciscan tertiaries in Foligno, she established similar communities in Florence, Spoleto, Assisi, and Viterbo, along with eleven others. After receiving congregational status from Pope Martin V (1369 – 1431 CE), Angeline was elected the congregation’s first Minister General in 1431.
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