Editing Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (section)

===Rules of the Order===
In 1529, they had four houses and held their first [[General Chapter]], at which their particular rules were drawn up. The [[Hermit|eremitical]] idea was abandoned, but the life was to be one of extreme austerity, simplicity and poverty—in all things as near an approach to St Francis' ideals as was practicable. Neither the monasteries nor the Province should possess anything, nor were any loopholes left for evading this law. No large provision against temporal wants should be made, and the supplies in the house should never exceed what was necessary for a few days. Everything was to be obtained by begging, and the friars were not allowed even to touch money.

The communities were to be small, eight being fixed as the normal number and twelve as the limit. In furniture and clothing extreme simplicity was enjoined and the friars were [[discalced]], required to go bare-footed—without even sandals. Like the Observants, the Capuchins wore a brown habit but of most simple form, i.e. only a [[tunic]], with the distinctive large, pointed hood reaching to the waist attached to it, girdled by the traditional woolen [[rope|cord]] with three knots. By visual analogy, the [[Capuchin monkey]] and the [[cappuccino]] style of coffee are both named after the shade of brown used for their habit.<ref name=Fragaszy>
{{cite book
 |author=Fragaszy
 |title=The complete capuchin : the biology of the genus Cebus
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |isbn=978-0-521-66116-4
 |year=2004
 |oclc=55875701
 |page=5
 |display-authors=et al
}}</ref><ref>Capuchin monkeys also have "hoodlike tufts of hair" on their heads. Entry, "capuchin" in ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (1976), Boston: Houghton Mifflin.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nellositaly.com/the-culture-of-italian-coffee.html |title=The Culture of Italian Coffee |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305132356/http://www.nellositaly.com/the-culture-of-italian-coffee.html |archive-date=2011-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Besides the [[canon law|canonical]] [[choir|choral]] celebration of the [[Liturgy of the Hours|Divine Office]], a portion of which was recited at midnight, there were two hours of private prayer daily. The [[fasting|fast]]s and disciplines were rigorous and frequent. Their main external work was [[preaching]] and spiritual ministrations among the poor. In [[theology]] the Capuchins abandoned the later Franciscan School of [[Scotism|Scotus]] and returned to the earlier school of [[Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]].