books.google.com - The early historians of the Franciscan order traced the causes of the troubles of the order in their time to Elias, a contemporary and friend of St Francis and an early Minister General. Elias was blamed for opening the way to all relaxations of discipline and disregard of the founder's teaching, and...http://books.google.com/books/about/Early_Franciscan_Government.html?id=p5zJN7WUEaIC&q=mendicants&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEarly Franciscan Government
