Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order of Friars Minor

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The Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order of Friars Minor (

Minister General if counting Francis as the first. The chronicle contains detailed accounts of various miracles and martyrs. For example, the Chronicle describes the deaths of Berard
and his companions, the first Franciscan martyrs, killed in Morocco in 1221. Overall, the Chronicle was heavily used by later Franciscan historians.

It is the earliest extant source for the incarceration of Roger Bacon.

References

  • Ralf Lützelschwab (2010). "Chronica XXIV generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum". In Dunphy, Graeme (ed.). .

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