The First Franciscan Tertiaries
Luchesio and Bounadonna were taken by St. Francis’s message and asked if there was not some way for them to follow his path without separating and entering religious life. Francis had longed to establish a Third Order in the Franciscan family for laypeople living in the world. Happily, he clothed Lechesio and Buonadonna in the plain habit and cord of the order.
St. Bonaventure Fraternity is a part of the Five Franciscan Martyrs Region in the State of Florida and one of over 1200 in the United States. When you become a Secular Franciscan , you can visit any of our fraternities as a brother or sister in Christ, in the Spirit of St. Francis.
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“The deeds you do today may be the only sermon people will hear today.” – St. Francis of Assisi
