Feudalism, monasticism affected by, [373].
Finnian, the monk, quarrels with Columba, [170].
Fisher, G.P., on the stigmata of Francis, [223].
Fisher, execution of, by Henry VIII., [301], [306].
Filial love, strangulation of, by monks, [397].
Forsyth, on St. Francis, [225].
Foxe, on Thomas Cromwell, [310].
France, New, and the Jesuits, [282].
Francis, St., his birth and early years, [208]; his dreams and sickness, [209]; visits Rome, [210]; seeking light on his duty, [210], [211]; sells his father's merchandise and keeps proceeds, [211]; renounces his father, [212]; assumes monkish habit, [213]; repairs Church of St. Damian, [214]; Dante on poverty and, [215]; visits Innocent III., [216]; visits Mohammedans, [217]; a lover of birds, [217]; Longfellow's poem on a homily of, [218]; his temptations, [218]; the stigmata, [219]; death of, [224]; his character, [225]; his rule, [226]; on prayer and preaching, [249]; method of, forsaken, [421].
Franciscans, The, first year of, [215]; order of, sanctioned, [216], [217]; three classes of, [226]; the rule of, [226]; Sabatier on rule of, [227]; the title "Friars Minor," [227]; number of, [228]; St. Clara and, [228]; The Third Order of, [229]; quarrel over the vow of poverty, [246]; prosperity of, [246]; educational work of, [248]; quarrel with Dominicans, [249]; settle in England, [251]; Baluzii on success of, [255]; fatal success of, [253].