Tiny (Religious order)

Tiny , i.e. the whole small forms an religious order created by Saint François of Paule (1436 in Calabria-1507), him even hermit seeking the absolute examination, a radical humility.

They are also called the Good Men .

Being withdrawn for a life of hermit, it attracts disciples whom it gathers in their giving in 1493 the most modest possible name, the Tiny ones, whose rule is of an extreme austerity.

They were spread in the Calabria and the Sicily. They were essential a rigorous life by adding to the three wishes franciscains that of the perpetual fast.

The Order was approved by the Pape Sixte IV in 1474, with all the " privilèges" orders beggars. They were propagated in France and Spain.

In the years 1990, they were approximately 200. In 2006, an exhaustive census gives the figure of 178.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the Nicolas Father Barred, tiny and antonien

  • Biography of François saint of Paule
  • saints: François saint of Paule
  • Letter of St François of Paule (1486)
  • AUDIENCE OF the POPE JEAN PAUL II WITH the PARTICIPANTS IN the GENERAL CHAPTER ABOUT TINY the

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