The secular Masters of the university of Paris and the Bishops of France combine from 1267 to 1271 to attack the Mendicant Orders, religious orders that depend directly on charity for their livelihood.
Christian mendicant orders, in principle, do not own property, either individually or collectively, believing that they are thereby copying the way of life followed by Jesus, and able to spend all their time and energy on religious work.
The mendicant orders are marked by two characteristics: poverty, practiced in common; and a way of life that combines praying together in community with the work of the public ministry of the Church.
