page_title: Secular Franciscan Order
section_title: Famous Secular Franciscans
hierarchical_section_title: Secular Franciscan Order / Famous Secular Franciscans
context_page_description: The Secular Franciscan Order is the third branch of the Franciscan Family formed by Catholic men and women who seek to observe the Gospel of Jesus by following the example of Francis of Assisi. Secular Franciscans are not like the other third orders, since they are not under the higher direction of the same institute. Brothers and sisters of the Secular Franciscan Order profess to their own Rule, and Secular Franciscan fraternities can exist without the presence of the first or second Franciscan Orders. The Secular Franciscan Order was the third of the three families founded by Saint Francis of Francis of Assisi 800 years ago.
  Originally known as the Brothers and Sisters of Penance, the Order is open to any Catholic not bound by religious vows to another religious order and is made up of both the laity and secular clergy.
  Although Secular Franciscans make a public profession and are consecrated, they are not bound by public vows as are religious living in community. The Third Order Regular, which grew out of the Third Order Secular, do make religious vows and live in community.
context_section_description: The following people belonging to the Order have been proclaimed saints:
  Elizabeth of Hungary (d.1231)
  Rose of Viterbo (d. 1251)
  Ferdinand III of Castile (d. 1252)
  Louis IX of France (d.1270)
  Margaret of Cortona (d. 1297)
  Ivo of Kermartin (d.1303)
  Amato Ronconi of Saldezzo (d.1304)
  Angela of Foligno (d.1309)
  Elzéar of Sabran (d.1323)
  Roch (d.1327)
  Elizabeth of Portugal (d.1336)
  Conrad of Piacenza (d.1351)
  Bridget of Sweden (d.1373)
  Joan of Arc (d.1431)
  Catherine of Genoa (d.1510)
  Thomas More (d.1535)
  Angela Merici (d. 1540)
  Charles Borromeo (d.1584)
  Jane Frances de Chantal (d.1641)
  Mariana de Jesús de Paredes (d.1645)
  Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur (d.1667)
  Mary Frances of the Five Wounds (d.1791)
  Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (d.1842)
  Vincenza Gerosa (d.1847)
  Vincent Pallotti (d.1850)
  Emily de Vialar (d.1856)
  John Vianney (d.1859)
  Joseph Cafasso (d.1860)
  Marguerite Bays (d.1879)
  Maria Giuseppa Rossello (d.1880)
  John Bosco (d.1888)
  Pope Pius X (d.1914)
  Luigi Guanella (d.1915)
  Frances Xavier Cabrini (d.1917)
  Pope John XXIII (d.1963)
  Seventeen members of the Third Order of St. Francis were included in the canonization of the 26 Martyrs of Japan. More members of the Third Order of St. Francis were included in the canonization of the Martyrs of Japan and the Chinese Martyrs.
  Numerous Secular Franciscans have been beatified, including:
  Viridiana de Attavantis (d.1242)
  Gerard of Villamagna (d.1242)
  Humiliana of Cerchi (d.1246)
  Luchesius of Poggibonsi (d.1260)
  Pope Gregory X (d.1276)
  Novellone of Faenza (d.1280)
  Peter of Siena (d.1289)
  Bartholomew of San Gimignano (d.1300)
  James of Città della Pieve (d.1304)
  John Pelingotto (d.1304)
  Joan of Signa (d.1307)
  Christina of Tuscany (d.1310)
  Ramon Llull (d.1315)
  Ubald of San Gimignano (d.1320)
  Peter Cresci (d.1323)
  Francis of Pesaro (d.1350)
  Michelina of Pesaro (d.1356)
  Delphina of Glandeves (d.1358)
  Charles of Blois (d.1364)
  Hugolino Magalotti (d.1373)
  Oddino Barrotti (d.1400)
  William Cufitella (d.1404)
  Jeanne-Marie de Maillé (d.1414)
  Peter Gambacorti of Pisa (d.1435)
  Nicholas of Forcapalena (d.1449)
  Paula Gambara-Costa (d.1515)
  Ludovica Albertoni (d.1533)
  Hippolytus Galantini (d.1619)
  Pope Pius IX (d.1878)
  Contardo Ferrini (d.1902)
  Erminio Pampuni (d.1930)
  Franz Jägerstätter (d.1943)
  Eight other Secular Franciscans have served as Bishop of Rome (Pope):
  Gregory IX (d.1241)
  Martin V (d.1431)
  Innocent XII (d.1700)
  Clement XII (d.1740)
  Leo XIII (d.1903)
  Benedict XV (d.1922)
  Pius XI (d.1939)
  Pius XII (d.1958)
  Other famous Secular Franciscans include:
  Dante Alighieri (d.1321)
  Giotto di Bondone (d.1337)
  Cola di Rienzo (d.1354)
  Petrarch (d.1374)
  Christopher Columbus (d.1506)
  Raphael (d.1520)
  Vasco da Gama (d.1524)
  Michelangelo (d.1564)
  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (d.1594)
  Miguel de Cervantes (d.1616)
  Lope de Vega (d.1635)
  Luigi Galvani (d.1798)
  Alessandro Volta (d.1827)
  André-Marie Ampère (d.1836)
  Gabriel García Moreno (d. 1875)
  Georgiana Fullerton (d.1885)
  Franz Liszt (d.1886)
  Henry Edward Manning (d.1892)
  Charles Gounod (d.1893)
  Louis Pasteur (d.1895)
  Coventry Patmore (d.1896)
  Herbert Vaughan (d.1903)
  Elizabeth, Lady Herbert of Lea (d.1911)
  Tomás Mac Curtain (d.1920)
  Terence MacSwiney (d.1920)
  Antonio Gaudi (d. 1926)
  Joe McCann (d.1972)
  John Michael Talbot
caption: Louis IX of France (1214–1270) was declared Patron of the Order.
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