Order of Minims | |
Ordo Minimorum | |
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.jpg) Francis of Paola (1416–1507), founder of the Order of Minims | |
| Abbreviation | OM |
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| Formation | 1435 |
| Type | Mendicant order of pontifical right (for men) |
| Headquarters | San Francesco di Paola ai Monti, Rome, Italy |
Membership (2018) | 176 (including 123 priests)[citation needed] |
Superior General | Gregorio Colatorti, OM |
| Website | ordinedeiminimi |
The Minims, officially known as the Order of Minims (Latin: Ordo Minimorum; abbreviated OM), and known in German-speaking countries as the Paulaner Order[1] (German: Paulanerorden), are a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continues to exist today.
Like the other mendicant orders, there are three separate components, or orders, of the movement: the friars, contemplative nuns and a Third Order of laypeople who live in the spirit of the order in their daily lives. At present there are only two fraternities of the Minim tertiaries; both are in Italy.
- ^ Johnson, Trevor (2009). Magistrates, Madonnas and Miracles: The Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate. Ashgate. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-7546-6480-2.