Mendicant Orders
monastic organizations, which, by their rule, were MENDICANT ORDERS, monastic orforbidden to acquire landed property in any manner whatsover, but were compelled to subsist on alms, in many in- any manner whatsover, but were com- forbidden to acquire landed property in stances in their early history, and in some cases even now, in some countries under Roman obedience, actually gathsome cases even now, in some countries 13th century, and at first consisted of the Carmelites, the Dominicans, and the Franciscans. In the latter half of the century the Augustinians became a mendicant order, and the Servites were recognized by Pope Innocent VIII., in 1487, as a fifth mendicant order.