Excerpt from The Rule and Constitutions, With Directory and Book of Customs of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Mount Hope, New York<br><br>To our Beloved Children, the Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, who live in community under the three essential vows.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.