Minims

Minims (Fratres Minimi, 'Least Brethren'—so called, in token of still greater humility, by contrast with the Fratres Minores or Lesser Brethren of St Francis of Assisi), an order of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by another St Francis, a native of Paula, a small town of Calabria, about the middle of the 15th century. See FRANCESCO DI PAULA.