Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

glorifying St. Francis, the founder of the
Franciscans, for what they call his holy, gentle life
and powerful preaching. He has been surrounded
with a halo of so-called miracles and experiences
as well as being made participant in events which
never happened. The real facts of the case indicate
that his only claim to a place on the pages of
history is that he brought the unoffending believers
in the New Testament to prison, to the stake, and to
exile for no other crime than refusing to believe the
doctrines of the papacy. However, there is more to
be said about the active work of the Dominicans in
connection with the Inquisition than the
Franciscans. Also there are good authorities who,
writing without any reference whatever to the
heresy-hunting policy of the Franciscans and
Dominicans, claim that their mystic teachings and
beliefs were similar to Manichaeism and other
pantheistic Oriental teaching.[41]
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