ST.FRANCIS OF ASSISI : GOD’S PROMISE TO THE ORDER FORMED BY ST.FRANCIS
Blessed Francis said that God had granted him four privileges and made them known to him by an angel. They were that 1. The order and profession of Friars Minor would endure until the day of judgment; 2. That no one who deliberately persecuted the Order would live long; 3. That no wrong-doer who intended to live an evil life in the Order would be able to remain in it for long and 4. That anyone who sincerely loved the Order, however great a sinner would obtain mercy in the last.