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Pope Honorius III Approving the Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi

c. 1500
Bartolomé del Castro (Spanish (active Palencia and environs), died 1507)
This panel may come from a large altarpiece dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi. The scene shows the saint receiving papal approval for the rule he wrote for his followers, requiring them to take a vow of poverty.

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