They follow the Rule of the Third Order Regular.

These were based on the rules of the Third Order with a collection of prayers and meditations for seven canonical hours.

Later many adopted the rule of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

Until Nicholas IV, no single Rule of the Third Order was generally observed, and there were versions of local characters.

It was established as an apostolic institute and followed the Rule of the Third Order Regular of St Francis.

By the 15th century, numerous individuals living under the Rule of the Third Order were living in small communities, many leading an eremetical life (cf. Celano).

In the 19th century many of the new congregations adopted the Rule of the Third Order, but most have no further connection with the First Order.

B. Franciscan missionaries of Mary, founded in India, and following the Rule of the Third Order Regular.

The congregation took the Rule of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis at that time, combining a life of service with that of contemplation.

There she experienced a vision, wherein God instructed her to found a cloistered monastery under the Rule of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Foligno.

The community is rooted in both the Catholic penitential movement and the pattern of Gospel life known as the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis.

Following the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, and as members of the Franciscan family, they are women dedicated to sharing their lives in prayer, community and ministry.

As she grew older, Rosa wished to enter the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel, who follow the Rule of the Third Order of the Discalced Carmelites.

They followed the Rule of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, also influenced by the Rule for Hermitages written by St. Francis of Assisi.

She requested from him the Rule of the Third Order Franciscans, and, in the winter of 1919, opened three institutions in Blato: a day-recovery centre, a child-care facility, and an orphanage.

Some other women joined her in this work and they formed a community of sisters according to the rule of the Third Order Franciscans, although Adele Brise never took public vows as a nun.

In confirming the rule of the Third Order and adapting it to the needs of modern times, Pope Leo Xlll had intended to bring back the largest possible number of souls to the practice of these virtues.

Later she established at Foligno a community of other women tertiaries, who added to the Rule of the Third Order a commitment to a common life without, however, binding themselves to enclosure, so that they might devote their lives to works of charity.

Following a pattern of life seen in some earlier attempts at Christian utopianism, the celibate members of the community lived in two separate communal residences, and their inhabitants came to follow the rule of the Third Order of St. Francis.

They chose to re-organize under the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis and received formal approval of the Holy See on November 10, 1868, under the name of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Egypt.

The rule of the Third Order of St. Dominic, being intended for persons living in the world, was not suited to community life; she therefore drew up, from the rule of the first and second orders, constitutions which she adapted to her own needs.

The Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary are a predominantly African-American religious congregation of Roman Catholic women who follow the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi.

Under his inspiration and guidance six young ladies from his parish and six from the adjoining parishes formed in 1866, the nucleus of a religious community conforming from its earliest existence to the Rule of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis.

The Obregonians, or the Minim Congregation of Poor Brothers Infirmarians, were a small Roman Catholic congregation of men dedicated to the nursing care of the sick, who professed the Rule of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis.

The Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville (postnominal initials: S.S.M.) was a Roman Catholic religious congregation for women based in Maryville, Missouri, which followed the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis.