Franciscan spirituals burned at Marseille
November 1318
Four Franciscan friars who insisted that Christ and the apostles had owned nothing were handed by the inquisition to the secular arm and burned in Marseille. John XXII had decreed that apostolic poverty in the absolute sense was heretical, a position that outraged purists within the order. The Spirituals' movement went underground, feeding later apocalyptic dissent.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.