Saint Francis Of Assisi Case Study

Back in “the eight century, the popes had reigned supreme over the affairs of the catholic church” (Spielogel, Western Civilization, 279), the popes had control of the papal state because their involvement of the political matter, as well as the lord-vassal relationship. The bishops and the abbots they hold offices as fiefs from the nobles because they are the highest official of the Catholic Church, “As vassal, they were obliged to carry out the usual duties” (Spielogel, Western Civilization, 280) and that includes military services. Duke Williams of Aquitaine in 910 he was the founder of the abbey of Cluny in Burgundy in eastern France. “The new monastery at Cluny tried to eliminate some of the abuse that had crept into religious communities

By the eleventh century Gregory VII had begun the Papal reform because he believe the “freedom of the church” and eliminated the lay investiture. In the early thirteenth century Saint Francis and Saint Dominic two religious orders known as the Order of Friars Minor and the Oder of Preachers. These orders are for the monastic members that did not remain in the cloister such as the Benedictines and Cistercians, but instead preaching the word of God in a secular arena of the towns. Saint Francis of Assisi began a new order as the Order of Friars Minor (known as the Franciscans) he gotten the order approve by Pope Innocent III, they preach and aiding for the poor. “The Franciscans had a female branch as well, known as the poor clares, which was founded by Saint Clare, an aristocratic lady of Assisi, who was a great admirer of Francis” (Spielogel, Western Civilization, 285). The second religious order comes from Dominic de Guzman, “he believes that a new religious order of men who live lives of poverty, but were learn and capable of preaching effectively would best be able to attack heresy” (Spielogel, Western Civilization, 285). Pope Innocent III approve the order of mendicant friars in