Word: bassi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capuchin order of friars, famed for preaching and ministrations to the poor, sprang from the Franciscans. They became a separate order in about the year 1520 when Matteo di Bassi decided that the habit worn by the Franciscans was not the one that St. Francis had worn. He made himself a pointed hood (capuche), allowed his beard to grow, went barefooted...